John Fleming

(relative of Henry Clay and John Thomas Clay), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Miss., July 5, 1951; B.S., University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1973; M.D., University of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., 1976; United States Navy, 1976-1982; physician; entrepreneur; Webster Parish, La., coroner, 1996-2000; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2009-January 3, 2017); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress in 2016, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate.