Weeks After Luke Letlow s Death, His Wife Julia Letlow Is the Frontrunner to Replace Him in Congress
On 2/9/21 at 6:00 AM EST
Julia Letlow has never run for political office, but she intimately knows what it s like to be on a successful Congressional campaign. She s now a frontrunner in the race to fill the seat that her husband, Luke Letlow, never got to occupy after his successful election last fall.
Luke died of complications from COVID-19 just five days before he was to be sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol for Lousiana s 5th District. You become a team, and you start to share the same dreams and vision and mission in life our shared vision was to help make this place that we call home better for our children and for future generations, Julia Letlow, 41, told
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