succeeded religion children birth_place party office preceded footnotes birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
robert mark marionneaux , jr. . christian holland thomas ryan greene boyd owens greene greene nader craig castleman greene jason ellfors greene place of birth missing democrat-turned-republican louisiana assumption , east baton rouge , iberville , pointe coupee state , west baton rouge , and west feliciana parishes -rrb- senator from district 17 -lrb- ascension , j. e. jumonville , jr. tom legislature 's most entrenched senators , j. e. jumonville , greene jr. , who served from 1976 to 1992 and succeeded twice his father , who held the seat from 1968 to defeated 1976 . one of the louisiana state 7 september 1948 1992 maringouin iberville parish louisiana , usa cathy castleman greene tom greene
 2000 thomas alan `` tom '' greene veterinarian ; rancher ; engineer louisiana state university
tom greene

thomas alan greene , known as tom greene -lrb- born september 7 , 1948 -rrb- , is a veterinarian and rancher from maringouin in iberville parish , louisiana , who served in the louisiana state senate from 1992 to 2000 .
he narrowly won the general election of 1991 and prevailed comfortably in the nonpartisan blanket primary in 1995 as a democrat .
during his second term , however , he switched affiliation to republican .
greene did not seek a third term in the senate in the 1999 primary .
instead , he challenged fellow democrat-turned-republican governor murphy j. `` mike '' foster , jr. in the gubernatorial primary , but polled only 35,434 votes -lrb- 2.7 percent -rrb- .
