Mancuso held the fourth district seat in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003 as a Democrat.
[1] He contested the Democratic party primary for Alabama's 3rd Senate district in 2006.
[2] In 2008, Mancuso switched parties, to run in the Republican primary for Alabama's 5th congressional district,[3] in which he finished third.
[4] Mancuso considered running for the lieutenant governorship in 2013, after hearing that an International Paper mill in Courtland planned to close with inadequate responses by state politicians.
[5][6] The next year, Mancuso contested the general election for Alabama's 4th Senate district as a Democrat, losing to Paul Bussman.