Brian LeClair

{{short description|American politician}}

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| name = Brian LeClair

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| state_senate = Minnesota

| state = Minnesota

| district = 56th

| term_start = January 7, 2003

| term_end = January 2, 2007

| predecessor = Michele Bachmann

| successor = Kathy Saltzman

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1968|10|17}}

| birth_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota

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| party = Republican

| alma_mater = University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hofstra University
American College

| occupation = attorney, business owner, legislator

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| residence = Woodbury, Minnesota

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Brian LeClair (born October 17, 1968) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A Republican, he was elected in 2002, and served one term representing District 56.[http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.asp?ID=10798 Minnesota Legislative Reference Library: LeClair, Brian] He was defeated for reelection in 2006 by Democrat Kathy Saltzman. In the 2010 general election he ran unsuccessfully for district judge in Minnesota's 10th Judicial District, one of 24 candidates to do so.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kathysaltzman.com/contact/index.cfm?Fuseaction=contact |title=Kathy Saltzman for State Senate |access-date=2010-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713140410/http://www.kathysaltzman.com/contact/index.cfm?Fuseaction=contact |archive-date=2011-07-13 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Washington County judge race getting crowded |first=Jim |last=Anderson |url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/96017294.html |newspaper=Star Tribune |date=June 9, 2010}}{{cite news |title=New Stillwater judge says democracy was served |first=Kevin |last=Giles |url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/106652978.html |newspaper=Star Tribune |date=November 3, 2010 }}

LeClair served as Health Policy Advisor to former Governor Tim Pawlenty.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/us/2005/risk.htm |title=Risk |accessdate=2010-06-30 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727133309/http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/us/2005/risk.htm |archivedate=2011-07-27 }} He is the vice president of LeClair Insurance in Saint Paul.http://www.emahu.org/sc2009_agenda.cfm{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

LeClair earned a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an M.B.A and J.D. from Hofstra University. He also holds the CLU and ChFC designations from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His writings have appeared in The New York Times and Forbes magazine.http://www.emahu.org/sc2009_speakers.cfm{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}