Joe Sevario


Joseph Adam Sevario, III, known as Joe Sevario, is a businessman from Prairieville in Ascension Parish near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who from 1976 to 1994 represented District 18 as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate.

Background

Sevario is one of six children born to Joseph A. Sevario, Jr. and the former Audrey Cannon.

Elections

In the 1983 election for a third term to the state Senate, Sevario defeated fellow Democrat M. Paul LeBlanc, 30,563 to 16,200.
In 1986, Sevario was an unsuccessful candidate for United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 8th congressional district. Victory went to Republican Clyde C. Holloway of south Rapides Parish. Sevario finished in fourth place in the race with 34,847 votes.
Among Sevario's contributors was Ascension Parish attorney Eddie J. Lambert, now a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
In his last state Senate campaign, Sevario defeated an Independent in the general election held on November 16, 1991. Sevario polled 27,666 votes to Jeffery "Jeff" Diez's 25,436.
Sevario resigned from the state Senate after eighteen years in office and was succeeded by former Senator Louis Lambert, who had also served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
Joe Sevario Road in Prairieville, Louisiana Highway 932, is named in his honor.