Cleo Fields

Cleo Fields is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana, representing the 6th Congressional District since January 3, 2025. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 22, 1962, he graduated from McKinley High School in 1980, earned a B.A. in mass communications from Southern University in 1984, and a J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 1987. At age 24 he became the youngest person ever elected to the Louisiana State Senate, serving 1988–1993. Elected to the U.S. House in 1992, he was the youngest member of the 103rd Congress (1993–1997), and in 1995 he ran for governor of Louisiana, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to make a gubernatorial runoff. He later returned to the State Senate (1997–2008 and 2019–2024), practiced law with The Fields Law Firm, and founded the Louisiana Leadership Institute. He won Louisiana's 6th Congressional District in 2024.