Taylor Barras, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Taylor Barras

Member of Louisiana State Legislature

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1957

Place of Birth: New Iberia, Louisiana, United States

Profession: businessperson, politician, banker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Taylor Francis Barras (born January 1957) is an American accountant and banker from New Iberia, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 48, based in Iberia Parish.
On January 11, 2016, as he began his third term in the chamber, Barras was elected House Speaker by his colleagues, who in what was considered a political upset on the second ballot rejected Representative Walt Leger, III, of New Orleans, the choice of incoming Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.
Barras received fifty-six votes; Leger, forty-nine.
Since the days of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., legislators had confirmed the governor's choice for Speaker, but the Republican House majority instead elected Barras, despite the governor's wishes to the contrary.