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 ==Second campaign for secretary of state==
-Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He finished third in an eight-candidate field with 182,841 votes (18 percent). Set to contest the position in the November runoff general election are the Republican former state Representative Nancy Landry, the executive assistant to outgoing Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], and the African-American Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup, both of whom finished with 19 percent of the ballots cast. Other candidates in the race were Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy and Brandon Trosclair, departing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Moderate Republican who held 15 percent of the vote, and African-American Democrat [[Arthur Morrell]], the elected criminal clerk of court in [[New Orleans]] and a former state representative.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
+Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He finished third in an eight-candidate field with 182,841 votes (18 percent). Set to contest the position in the November runoff general election are the Republican former state Representative [[Nancy Landry]], the executive assistant to outgoing Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], and the African-American Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup, a Baton Rouge attorney, both of whom finished with 19 percent of the ballots cast. Other candidates in the race were Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy and Brandon Trosclair, departing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Moderate Republican who held 15 percent of the vote, and African-American Democrat [[Arthur Morrell]], the elected criminal clerk of court in [[New Orleans]] and a former state representative.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
 ==References==

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 ==Second campaign for secretary of state==
-Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He finished third in an eight-candidate field with 182,841 votes (18 percent). Set to contest the position in the November runoff general election are the Republican former state Representative Nancy Landry, the executive assistant to outgoing Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], and the African-American Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup, both of whom finished with 19 percent of the ballots cast. Other candidates in the race were Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy and Brandon Trosclair, departing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Moderate Republican, and African-American Democrat [[Arthur Morrell]], the New Orleans elected criminal clerk of court and a former state representative.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
+Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He finished third in an eight-candidate field with 182,841 votes (18 percent). Set to contest the position in the November runoff general election are the Republican former state Representative Nancy Landry, the executive assistant to outgoing Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], and the African-American Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup, both of whom finished with 19 percent of the ballots cast. Other candidates in the race were Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy and Brandon Trosclair, departing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Moderate Republican who held 15 percent of the vote, and African-American Democrat [[Arthur Morrell]], the elected criminal clerk of court in [[New Orleans]] and a former state representative.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
 ==References==

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 ==Second campaign for secretary of state==
-Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He faced a plethora of opponents, including
+Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He finished third in an eight-candidate field with 182,841 votes (18 percent). Set to contest the position in the November runoff general election are the Republican former state Representative Nancy Landry, the executive assistant to outgoing Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], and the African-American Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup, both of whom finished with 19 percent of the ballots cast. Other candidates in the race were Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy and Brandon Trosclair, departing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Moderate Republican, and African-American Democrat [[Arthur Morrell]], the New Orleans elected criminal clerk of court and a former state representative.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 14, 2023.</ref>
 ==References==

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 ==Second campaign for secretary of state==
 Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He faced a plethora of opponents, including
-fellow Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy, III, former state Representative Nancy Landry, outgoing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], and  Brandon Trosclair, along with two African-American Democrats, Gwen Collins-Greenup, who lost the 2019 election to [[Kyle Ardoin]], and New Orleans politician [[Arthur Morrell]].
+fellow Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy, III, former state Representative Nancy Landry and assistant to retiring Secretary of State [[Kyle Ardoin]], outgoing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], a Modereate Republican, and  Brandon Trosclair, along with two African-American Democrats, Gwen Collins-Greenup, who lost the 2019 election to [[Kyle Ardoin]], and New Orleans elected criminal clerk of court and former state Representative [[Arthur Morrell]].
 ==References==

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 According to campaign finance reports, Dardenne raised $722,631; Francis, $149,637 and added $70,000 of his own funds for a total of $219,650. In his unsuccessful race, Francis carried the support of the failed 2008 presidential candidate, U. S. Senator [[John McCain]], a Moderate Republican from [[Arizona]].
 Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He faced a plethora of opponents, including
-fellow Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy, III, former state Representative Nancy Landry, outgoing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], and  Brandon Trosclair, along with two African-American Democrats, Gwen Collins-Greenup, who lost the 2019 election to Kyle Ardoin, and New Orleans politician [[Arthur A. Morrell]].
+fellow Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy, III, former state Representative Nancy Landry, outgoing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], and  Brandon Trosclair, along with two African-American Democrats, Gwen Collins-Greenup, who lost the 2019 election to [[Kyle Ardoin]], and New Orleans politician [[Arthur Morrell]].
 ==References==

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	According to campaign finance reports, Dardenne raised $722,631; Francis, $149,637 and added $70,000 of his own funds for a total of $219,650. In his unsuccessful race, Francis carried the support of the failed 2008 presidential candidate, U. S. Senator [[John McCain]], a Moderate Republican from [[Arizona]].		According to campaign finance reports, Dardenne raised $722,631; Francis, $149,637 and added $70,000 of his own funds for a total of $219,650. In his unsuccessful race, Francis carried the support of the failed 2008 presidential candidate, U. S. Senator [[John McCain]], a Moderate Republican from [[Arizona]].
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		+	Francis again sought the secretary of state post in the primary held on October 14, 2023. He faced a plethora of opponents, including
		+	fellow Republicans Thomas J. Kennedy, III, former state Representative Nancy Landry, outgoing House Speaker [[Clay Schexnayder]], and Brandon Trosclair, along with two African-American Democrats, Gwen Collins-Greenup, who lost the 2019 election to Kyle Ardoin, and New Orleans politician [[Arthur A. Morrell]].

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-|preceded=[[Charles DeWitt]] (interim of Clyde Cecil Holloway)
+|preceded=[[Charles DeWitt]] (interim of [[Clyde Holloway]])
 |office2=State Chairman of the<br> Louisiana [[Republican Party]]
 |term_start2=1994
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 As the Republican state chairman, Francis tried to unseat the legislative floor leaders for Governor Edwin Edwards. In the 1996 Louisiana presidential [[caucus]] won by the [[journalist]] and commentator [[Patrick J. Buchanan]], Francis worked for then [[U.S. Senator]] [[William Phillip Gramm|Phil Gramm]] of [[Texas]], who soon left the race and deferred to the eventual nominee, former [[U.S. Senator]] [[Bob Dole|Robert J. Dole]] of [[Kansas]].
-Francis had been mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for the District 4 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission, which was filled in a special election on April 4, 2008, to replace [[Dale Sittig]] of Eunice, who resigned to become director of the Louisiana Offshore Terminal Authority. Ultimately, the Republican former U.S. Representative Clyde  Holloway of Rapides Parish won the remaining nineteen months of Sittig's term. When Holloway did not seek reelection and died during the 2016 campaign to choose his successor, Franics won the post over another Republican and a [[Democrat Party|Democrat]]. His current term expires on January 1, 2023.
+Francis had been mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for the District 4 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission, which was filled in a special election on April 4, 2008, to replace [[Dale Sittig]] of Eunice, who resigned to become director of the Louisiana Offshore Terminal Authority. Ultimately, the Republican former U.S. Representative [[Clyde Holloway]] of Rapides Parish won the remaining nineteen months of Sittig's term. When Holloway did not seek reelection and died during the 2016 campaign to choose his successor, Franics won the post over another Republican and a [[Democrat Party|Democrat]]. His current term expires on January 1, 2023.
 ===State senate race, 1996===
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 The Secretary of State is Louisiana's top elections officer. The office maintains corporation and government records.
-"We have had a lot of criticism about professional politicians in this state. . . . People are crying out for change. Most are demanding it. . . . Our problems are not Republican or Democrat problems. They are all our problems, and we need to face them together. We need sound business principles in Baton Rouge and not more politics. To attract business, we need leaders who know how to talk business, not politics," Francis said.
+"We have had a lot of criticism about professional politicians in this state.... People are crying out for change. Most are demanding it. . . . Our problems are not Republican or Democrat problems. They are all our problems, and we need to face them together. We need sound business principles in Baton Rouge and not more politics. To attract business, we need leaders who know how to talk business, not politics," Francis said. Francis promised, if elected, that he would take a business approach to the secretary of state's office and work to create jobs and to ensure "clean elections," for which he noted Louisiana had formerly been lacking, particularly the disputed 1996 U.S. Senate race between Republican [[Woody Jenkins]] and Democrat [[Mary Landrieu]].
-Francis lost the race for Secretary of State to John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr., an [[attorney]] born in 1954 and a state senator from [[Baton Rouge]], one of most visible [[Moderate Republicans]] in the state.. The election was held to finish the fifteen months remaining in the term of Republican Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005).  [[Al Ater]], a Democratic former state representative from Ferriday in Concordia Parish, had succeeded to the position because he was McKeithen's first deputy. The special election was held in conjunction with the primary for other offices contested in 2006.<ref>Ex-GOP chief running for secretary of state (kplctv.com), accessed April 27, 2021.</ref>
+Francis lost the race for Secretary of State to John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr., an [[attorney]] born in 1954 and a state senator from [[Baton Rouge]], one of most visible [[Moderate Republicans]] in the state.. The election was held to finish the fifteen months remaining in the term of Republican Walter Fox McKeithen (1946-2005). [[Al Ater]], a Democratic former state representative from Ferriday in Concordia Parish, had succeeded to the position because he was McKeithen's first deputy. The special election was held in conjunction with the primary for other offices contested in 2006.<ref>Ex-GOP chief running for secretary of state (kplctv.com), accessed April 27, 2021.</ref>
 Francis finished third in the race, based largely on his support in mostly rural and small-town parishes in his native north Louisiana. He received 26 percent of the vote. Democratic state Senator Francis C. Heitmeier of [[New Orleans]] polled 28 percent, and Dardenne led the field with 30 percent. None of the other four candidates had more than 9 percent.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, September 30, 2006.</ref>

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 When Republican Governor [[Mike Foster|Murphy James  "Mike" Foster, Jr.]], named Democratic state Senator [[Cecil Picard]] as education secretary, a special election was held on August 24, 1996, to begin the process of choosing Picard's state senate successor. State Representative [[Gerald J. Theunissen]], a Democrat who later switched to Republican affiliation, led the contest with 7,086 votes (29.5 percent). Francis, still state party chairman and the only Republican among the six candidates, finished in second place with 6,112 votes (25.5 percent). Four other Democrats shared the remaining but crucial 45 percent of the ballots.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Special election returns, August 24, 1996.</ref> In the runoff election on September 21, Theunissen defeated Francis, 20,320 votes (55.7 percent) to 16,172 (44.3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Special election returns, September 21, 1996.</ref>
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 The Secretary of State is Louisiana's top elections officer. The office maintains corporation and government records.

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 | name=Michael Gordon "Mike" Francis
 |image=Mike Francis of LA.jpg
-|office=[[Louisiana]] Public Servuce Commissioner for District 4, (Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Rapides, St. Landry, Sabine, Vermilion, and Vernon parishes)
+|office=[[Louisiana]] Public Servuce Commissioner for District 4<br> (Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Rapides, St. Landry, Sabine, Vermilion, and Vernon parishes)
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 | name=Michael Gordon "Mike" Francis
 |image=Mike Francis of LA.jpg
-|office=[[Louisiana]] Public Service Commissioner for  District 4
+|office=[[Louisiana]] Public Servuce Commissioner for District 4, (Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, LaSalle, Rapides, St. Landry, Sabine, Vermilion, and Vernon parishes)
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 |succeeded2=[[Chuck McMains|Francis Charles "Chuck" McMains, Jr.]]
 |preceded2=[[Dud Lastrapes|William Dudley "Dud" Lastrapes, Jr.]]
-|birth_date =November 27, 1946
+|birth_date=November 27, 1946
 |birth_place=Jena, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
 |residence=Crowley, Acadia Parish