Richard Ieyoub

Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He served as the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992 to 2004. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2003 [Louisiana gubernatorial election|2003].
Ieyoub's father, Philip, emigrated from Lebanon to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and his mother, Virginia, was a first-generation Lebanese American.
Ieyoub was inducted into the Louisiana [Political Museum and Hall of Fame] in 2016.
Ieyoub and his wife, Caprice, had seven children. He died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on April 10, 2023, at the age of 78, from complications of surgery for a ruptured aneurysm.