Billy Hathorn: {{Infobox_ State Senator |name= ((Phil Short|Philip Granville Short)) |image= |image_size= |caption= |office= {{flagicon|Louisiana}} ((Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana State Senator from District 12 (St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes))) |term_start=1996 |term_end=1999 |preceded=((Sixty Rayburn|B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn)) |succeeded=((Jerry Thomas (Louisiana politician)|Jerry Thomas)) |birth_date= {{birth date and age |1947|1|31|}} |birth_place= |death_date= |death_place= |residence={{flagicon|Virginia}} ((Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia|Spotsylvania Courthouse)), ((Virginia)), ((United States|USA)) |spouse= Suzanne Richards Short |children= |party= ((Republican Party (United States)|Republican)) |occupation={{flagicon|USA}} ((Lieutenant colonel)) in ((United States Marine Corps)) |religion= ((Baptist)) |alma_mater=((C.E. Byrd High School))<br> ((Louisiana Tech University))<br> ((Webster University)) |footnotes=Short unseated the legendary ((Sixty Rayburn)) in the ((Louisiana State Legislature)) but served only three years of his term. He resigned to take a new position with the Marines in ((Washington, D.C.)). }} '''Philip Granville Short''', known as '''Phil Short''' (born January 31, 1947) is a retired military officer formerly of ((Covington, Louisiana|Covington)), ((Louisiana)), who served in the ((Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana State Senate)) from District 12 (((St. Helena Parish|St. Helena)), ((St. Tammany Parish|St. Tammany)), ((Tangipahoa Parish|Tangipahoa)), and ((Washington Parish, Louisiana|Washington)) parishes) from 1996-1999. Short won the seat in the ((general election)) held on November 18, 1995, by unseating the long-term ((incumbent)) ((Sixty Rayburn|B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn)) of ((Bogalusa, Louisiana|Bogalusa)). Short polled 21,222 votes (51 percent) to Rayburn's 20,676 (49 percent)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=111895 Louisiana Secretary of State-Multi-Parish Elections Inquiry|title=Louisiana election returns, November 18, 1995|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref> Short graduated in 1965 from ((C.E. Byrd High School)) in ((Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport)). He received his ((Bachelor of Arts)) degree in 1969 from ((Louisiana Tech University)) in ((Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston)). Subsequently, he procured an ((M.A.)) degree from the private ((Webster University)) in ((Webster Groves, Missouri|Webster Groves)) near ((St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis)), ((Missouri)). He was a ((lieutenant colonel)) and a naval aviator in the ((United States Marine Corps)) from 1970-1994. He is a member of the ((American Legion)), the ((Veterans of Foreign Wars)), and the National Association of Realtors. He served on the military service academy recruitment team for former ((U.S. Representative)) ((Bob Livingston)), a Republican from the ((New Orleans)) ((suburb))s. A ((Baptist)), Short is married to the former Suzanne Richards (born ca. 1954).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enlou.com/officeholders/senatedistrict12.htm|title="Senate District 12"|publisher=enlou.com|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref> Short resigned prior to the expiration of his Senate term to accept a position with the Marine Corps in ((Washington, D.C.)). He had also been a ((real estate)) agent in Covington. Ironically, both state senators who preceded and succeeded Rayburn served only three years of their term, resigned, and necessitated ((special election))s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/s1880-2004.pdf|title="Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2004"|publisher=legis.state.la.us|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref> Rayburn's district appeared to have turned solidly Republican in the special election of February 6, 1999, when the sole Democratic candidate, Stanley Middleton, polled only 9 percent of the vote. Short was succeeded by Democrat-turned-Republican ((Jerry Thomas (Louisiana politician)|Jerry Thomas)), a ((Louisiana State Legislature|state representative)) and ((physician)) from ((Franklinton, Louisiana|Franklinton)), who won the position outright in the first round of balloting with 51 percent of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=020699|title=Louisiana special election returns, February 6, 1999|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref> In the balloting for full term in October 1999, Thomas defeated Stanley Middleton, his only opponent, 76-24 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=102399|title=Louisiana election returns, October 23, 1999|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref> In 2003, Thomas did not seek a second full term as a result of a 2002 incident in which he was accused of engaging in lewd conduct at an adult bookstore in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newshorn.com/wiki/Senate_District_12/|title="Newshorn: Senate District 12"|publisher=newshorn.com|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref>A Democrat, ((Ben Nevers|Ben W. Nevers)) of Bogalusa, won Thomas’ former seat with 43 percent of the primary ballots, because the second-place candidate, Republican Richard E. Tanner (born 1942) of Covington, who trailed with 21 percent, withdrew from the general election because more than 70 percent of the primary ballots were cast for Democratic candidates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=100403|title=Louisiana election returns, October 4, 2003|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref>Nevers was unopposed in 2007; so the Rayburn seat returned to its traditional Democratic moorings. In 1997, Short introduced Senate Bill 37 to remove ((sexual orientation)) from the state's ((hate crimes)) law. His amendment was defeated in April and again in May, the second time without a vote being taken. Several of Short’s fellow Republican senators joined Democrats in speaking against the bill, including ((Ken Hollis)) of ((Metairie, Louisiana|Metairie)) in ((Jefferson Parish, Louisiana|Jefferson Parish)) and ((Ron Bean)) of Shreveport. Hollis said that he was "absolutely convinced that those people who lead the alternate lifestyle do so because of genetics. . . . I don't condone their way of life, but I'm not gonna sit up here and condemn it and to vote for a constitutional amendment to bring it to a vote to divide our people..."<ref name=gay>{{cite web|url=http://www.qrd.org/qrd/usa/louisiana/1997/antimarriage.amendment.killed.again-05.08.97|title="Louisiana Anti-Marriage Bill Defeated a Second Time without a Single Vote Cast", May 8, 1997|publisher=qrd.org|accessdate=November 3, 2009}}</ref>Bean echoed Hollis: "I see no reason to dig this up and grind it around in public again. . . . The session before last we had a ((hate crimes)) bill and one of the things we put in it was 'sexual orientation' and that stirred up a lot of controversy out in the community. And this'll do the same thing in the long run."<ref name=gay/> Short and his wife reside at 8105 Waterford Drive in ((Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia|Spotsylvania Courthouse)), ((Virginia)).<ref>Net Detective People Search</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{start box}} {{succession box |before=((Sixty Rayburn|B.B. “Sixty” Rayburn)) |title=((Louisiana State Legislature|Louisiana State Senator for the 12th District (St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes))) ((Phil Short|Philip Granville Short)) |years=1996–1999 |after=((Jerry Thomas (Louisiana politician)|Jerry Thomas))}} {{end box}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rayburn, Sixty}} ((Category:1947 births)) ((Category:Baptists from the United States)) ((Category:Louisiana Republicans)) ((Category:Louisiana State Senators)) ((Category:People from St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana)) ((Category:People from Shreveport, Louisiana)) ((Category:People from Spotsylvania County, Virginia)) ((Category:United States Marine Corps officers)) ((Category:American businesspeople)) ((Category:Realtors)) ((Category:C.E. 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