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McPherson was first elected to the Senate in 1983, when he resided in Pineville. He unseated incumbent fellow Democrat Ned Randolph, who subsequently served from 1986 to 2006 as the mayor of Alexandria. Randolph's defeat came in the same election cycle that Edwin Washington Edwards staged his gubernatorial comeback for a third nonconsecutive term against incumbent Republican David C. Treen.
In 1987, McPherson defeated the RepublicanJock Scott, an outgoing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who sought to move up to the Senate, and former senator Cecil R. Blair of Lecompte, who was seeking a comeback, having been defeated in 1975 by Ned Randolph.[5] McPherson won again on November 16, 1991, over the Republican Robert W. Bates, 23,428 votes (56.8 percent) to 17,819 (43.2 percent).[6] Three other Democratic candidates, including state Representative Charles R. Herring of Alexandria and singer Jay Chevalier, had been eliminated in the primary election held on October 19.[7]
McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995. Voters chose the Democrat B.G. Dyess, an ordained Baptist minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964 to 1988. When Dyess did not seek a second term in 1999, McPherson returned to claim the seat once again, having defeated the Republican State Representative Randy Wiggins of Pineville.[8]
McPherson was reelected in 2003 and 2007 by wide margins in each election over his fellow Democrat Jerry M. Guillory, who had also run in the 1999 McPherson-Wiggins race.[9]
McPherson was ineligible to seek a fourth consecutive Senate term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. In all, he served a total of six full terms in the Senate and was succeeded by the African American outgoing state Representative Rick Gallot of Grambling, who polled just over 50 percent of the vote in the primary. After the 2010 census, District 29 was reconfigured to include the black communities in seven parishes: Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.[10]
In 1990, McPherson, then residing in Pineville, challenged incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Clyde Holloway, a conservative from Forest Hill, also in Rapides Parish, in the since defunct Eighth District House seat. Holloway won the race but was himself narrowly unseated in 1992 in a revised districting plan by a fellow Republican, Richard H. Baker of Baton Rouge.
In 1995, McPherson did not seek a fourth term in the Senate but instead challenged state Representative Dale Sittig of Eunice in St. Landry Parish, for the District 4 seat on the Public Service Commission. Sittig polled 141,473 votes (52.8 percent) to McPherson's 126,452 (47.2 percent). Sittig cemented his margin with comfortable wins in his own St. Landry Parish as well as Evangeline, Acadia, and Calcasieu parshes. Surprisingly, McPherson won his own Rapides Parish by fewer than two thousand votes.[11]
Thirteen years later, Sittig resigned on September 15, 2008, from the PSC to accept the appointment from GovernorBobby Jindal to the Louisiana Offshore Terminal Authority. McPherson then entered the special election for the PSC seat that Sittig had vacated. His rivals were Republican Clyde Holloway, whom he had opposed for Congress in 1990, and the Democrat-turned-Republican former State Representative Gil Pinac. Though he had predicted a solid victory on his website and trailed Holloway in the first round of balloting by only 648 raw votes (less than 1 percent), primarily because of a strong showing in Lake Charles,[12] McPherson withdrew from the runoff election. Holloway thus claimed the PSC seat, his first elected position since 1993, when he left Congress.[13] In the meantime, Holloway lost attempts to return to the U.S. House in 1994, 1996, and 2002, and to be elected lieutenant governor in 2003 on an ill-fated ticket with former PSC member Jay Blossman, who had left the commission by the time Holloway won the former Sittig seat.
Senatorial voting record
McPherson was considered an ally of organized labor in the Senate, but his ratings from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, a pro-business interest group, reached nearly 60 percent. The Louisiana National Federation of Independent Business ranked McPherson at 22 percent in support of its goals. Social conservatives often oppose him, but he has ranked nearly 80 percent in a rating from the Louisiana Family Forum.[14]
Clyde Cecil Holloway was an American politician, small business owner, and member of the Republican Party who – at his death – served as one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. After seven years in office he did not seek reelection to the PSC in the primary election held on November 8, 2016, in conjunction with the presidential election.
Foster Lonnie Campbell Jr., is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the U.S. state of Louisiana. Since 2003, he has been a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 2002.
Gillis James Pinac, is a former three-term Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Crowley in Acadia Parish. He switched his affiliation to Republican a week before announcing his candidacy for the Louisiana Public Service Commission in the special election held on April 4, 2009.
Clifton Dale Sittig is the director of the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, who formerly served from 1995 to 2008 as a Democratic member of the Public Service Commission and from 1983 to 1995 as a state representative from Eunice in St. Landry Parish in South Louisiana.
Dudley Anthony Gautreaux, known as Butch Gautreaux, is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana State Senate from Morgan City, Louisiana. From 2000 to 2012, he represented Senate District 21. In 2012, the reconfigured district incorporated mostly Republican portions of Iberia, Lafourche, St. Mary, and Lafourche parishes.
John R. Smith is a politician from Leesville, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 30, which encompasses Vernon, Beauregard, and Calcasieu parishes in western Louisiana.
Leonard Joseph Chabert, I, of Houma, Louisiana, was a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature. He was born in rural Chauvin in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana.
Robert Allen Johnson is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 28 in Avoyelles Parish in south central Louisiana. He resides in Marksville. He is the House Minority Leader, opposite Majority Leader Lance Harris of Alexandria.
Robert Wayne Bates is a horticultural nurseryman in Forest Hill in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana, who was an agent of the United States Secret Service under U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. He also provided security for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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