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Richard Alvin Tonry was born on 25 June, 1935 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., is an American politician. Discover Richard Alvin Tonry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?
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Richard Alvin Tonry |
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77 years old |
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Cancer |
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25 June 1935 |
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25 June |
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New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Date of death |
3 July, 2012 |
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Lumberton, Mississippi, U.S. |
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United States
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Richard Alvin Tonry Height, Weight & Measurements
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Richard Alvin Tonry Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Richard Alvin Tonry worth at the age of 77 years old? Richard Alvin Tonry’s income source is mostly from being a successful politician. He is from United States. We have estimated Richard Alvin Tonry's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Richard Alvin Tonry (June 25, 1935 – July 3, 2012) was an American politician.
Shortly after taking his state House seat, Tonry declared his candidacy for the United States Congress from Louisiana's 1st congressional district after the 36-year Democratic incumbent, F. Edward Hébert, announced his retirement.
In the Democratic primary, Tonry upset New Orleans City Councilman James Moreau, then narrowly defeated Republican Bob Livingston, an assistant state attorney general, in the general election.
He graduated in 1962 from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.
In 1967, he earned a law degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.
He practiced law in the New Orleans area for almost a decade before being elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in the first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary held at the state level in the fall of 1975.
He served a year (1976) in Louisiana House District 103.
In the state House, he was an unabashed supporter of organized labor and was particularly close to Louisiana AFL-CIO leader Victor Bussie.
Tonry led the push to kill a right-to-work bill in the 1976 legislative session, but those efforts failed and the bill became law without the signature of Governor Edwin W. Edwards, who, like Tonry, was a strong supporter of organized labor and close friend of Bussie's. Thus, Louisiana became the last Southern state to adopt a right-to-work bill.
A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 1st congressional district for a partial term in 1977.
When Tonry resigned from Congress after four months in the office, a special election was called in August 1977.
Tonry ran in the Democratic primary for that race, but lost to one of his former colleagues in the state legislature, Ron Faucheux, who was defeated by Livingston in the special election.
Bopp had succeeded Tonry in the state House in 1977.
It was one of the last congressional elections held before Louisiana adopted its nonpartisan blanket primary for such elections in 1978.
Tonry was investigated by U.S. Attorney Gerald J. Gallinghouse on charges of allowing subordinates to steal votes by stuffing ballot boxes in St. Bernard Parish, a suburb of New Orleans.
He was also charged with receiving illegal campaign funds beyond the $1,000 federal limit then imposed per contribution.
These allegations ultimately led to his resignation, his guilty pleas of campaign-finance irregularities, and a six-month prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1983, Tonry tried to return to the Louisiana House in District 103, but finished in fourth (dead last) in the nonpartisan blanket primary with 2,693 votes (17.8 percent).
Victory went to the Republican Edward Ripoll, who defeated incumbent Edward S. Bopp in a runoff election.
Tonry died of natural causes in 2012 at the age of 77 and is interred at St. Bernard Memorial Gardens in Chalmette, Louisiana.