Kenneth Osterberger, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKenneth Osterberger
Louisiana politician
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1930
Date of Death: 10-Aug-2016
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Kenneth Osterberger
- Kenneth Eli "Ken" Osterberger, Jr.
- (April 3, 1930 – August 10, 2016), was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for East Baton Rouge Parish.
- He served first as a Democrat in the elections of 1972, 1975, 1979, and 1983 and then as a Republican in the contest held in 1987.
- His tenure ended in 1992, and he was succeeded by the Moderate Republican Jay Dardenne, the current Louisiana commissioner of administration and the former lieutenant governor.
- His legislative service corresponded with the first three administrations of Governor Edwin Edwards and the intervening years of Governors David C.
- Treen and Buddy Roemer.One of two children of Kenneth Osterberger, Sr.
- (died 1946), Osterberger was the president of the Louisiana State University student body from 1952 to 1953.
- At LSU, he was affiliated with the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
- During the Korean War, he was a second lieutenant in the United States Army's 10th Infantry Division.
- He was the local and state president of the Junior Chamber International.Prior to his Senate service, Osterberger was for eight years a member of the Baton Rouge Metro government.
- From 1969 to 1972, he was the President Pro Tempore of the Metro government.In 1975, in his first reelection to the state Senate, Osterberger polled nearly two-thirds of the votes cast in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary held in Louisiana, when he was challenged by the then Democrat, later Republican convert, David Duke, a former official with the Ku Klux Klan who then resided in Baton Rouge. In 1983, Osterberger in his last race as a Democrat defeated the Republican "Rocky" Powell, 29,816 (73.8 percent) to 10,607 (26.2 percent).
- In Osterberger's last election to the Senate, as a Republican in 1987, he polled 37,172 votes (80.8 percent) to 8,845 (19.2 percent) for A.
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- "Apple" Sanders Jr., a Democrat who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1956 to 1964.
- Osterberger was the founder of the Louisiana Senate prayer breakfast.
- He died at the age of 86 of Alzheimer's disease on August 10, 2016.
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