Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Sr. ( EYE-yoob; August 11, 1944 – April 10, 2023) 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.
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.
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- Ieyoub and Jefferson weigh political futures - 8/18/2005, source unknown
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- State Attorney General Actions, the Tobacco Litigation, and the Doctrine of Parens Patriae - Working abstract by Theodore Eisenburg and Richard Ieyoub
- Richard Ieyoub envisions NASCAR gold - Capitol Watch, 9/5/03
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- Who's Who in America, 2006
