Daniel Albert Claitor (born August 3, 1961), known as Dan Claitor, is a Baton Rouge attorney and a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate.On April 4, 2009, Claitor defeated fellow Republican Lee Domingue, a Baton Rouge businessman backed by Governor Bobby Jindal, in a special election for the District 16 Senate seat vacated by Republican U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy. Claitor received 11,713 votes (66 percent) to Domingue's 6,114 (34 percent).