The author and Mike Bayham campaigned together as undergraduates at LSU.
Posted by Speaker Mike Johnson, Checked
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Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnsonNov 12, 2026We were shocked and saddened this morning by the news of La. State Rep. Mike Bayham’s untimely passing. Mike has been a trusted friend of mine for more than 35 years, and he carried forward the same servant’s heart and love of country that he did when we campaigned together as undergraduates at LSU. Majority Leader @SteveScalise and I reminisced this morning about our faithful friend, and how much he cared for his country and our conservative principles. …
The sources confirm Mike Bayham attended LSU in the early 1990s and was politically active there, but none places the post's author, Speaker Mike Johnson, at LSU or campaigning with Bayham, so the claim's central assertion cannot be graded. The extracted claim matches the passage's wording, so it is not an extraction addition.
What we found
Context. A News From the States profile says Bayham and Susan East Nelson were LSU students in the 1990s, and that Bayham and Glorioso were freshmen at LSU in 1992 when they met Al Gore.[2]
Context. Louisiana House records list Bayham's education as a B.A. from Louisiana State University, which confirms his LSU attendance but not who he campaigned with.[1]
Context. No source in the set mentions the author's undergraduate education or any campaigning he did with Bayham at LSU, so the sources neither confirm nor refute the claim.[1][2][3][4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Louisiana House of Representatives 24-28house.louisiana.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2‘Very passionate, very principled’: St. Bernard state Rep. Mike Bayham diesnewsfromthestates.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Michael Bayham Jr., legislator and longtime St. Bernard Parish official, dies at 52nola.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4State Rep. Mike Bayham dies at 52wwltv.com · not rated · cited for: context
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