B. L. Shaw

Infobox_State Senator


name= B.L. "Buddy" Shaw
caption= Former State Represenatative and current State Senator B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, Shreveport Republican
office= Louisiana State Senate District 37 (Caddo and Bossier parishes)
term_start=2008
term_end=
preceded=Max T. Malone
succeeded=Incumbent
office2=Louisiana House of Representatives District 6 (Caddo Parish)
term _start2= 1996
term_end2= 2004
preceded2= Melissa Scott Flournoy
succeeded2= Mike Powell

birth_date= birth date and age|1933|09|06
spouse= Mary Ann Shaw, Ph.D.
children= Daughter Stephanie Shaw; stepson Edward Neff Minor, III, (1963-1995)
party= Republican
occupation= Educator; former member of the Caddo Parish School Board
religion= Baptist
education1= Northwestern State University

B.L. "Buddy" Shaw (born September 6, 1933) is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Caddo and Bossier parishes in the northwestern corner of the state. He defeated fellow Republican Billy Montgomery in the November 17, 2007, general election to procure the District 37 seat vacated by the term-limited Senator Max T. Malone of Shreveport. Shaw received 7,157 votes (57 percent) to Montgomery's 5,317 (43 percent) [ [http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=111707 Louisiana Secretary of State-Multi-Parish Elections Inquiry ] ] A retired educator, Shaw is also a former member of both the Caddo Parish School Board and the Louisiana House of Representatives. Shaw held the District 6 state House seat, which includes south and southeast Shreveport, from 1996-2004.

Shaw did not seek reelection to a third term in the 2003 jungle primary. He returned to the political stage in 2007 as a candidate for the Senate. In addition to Montgomery, a term-limited District 9 state representative, the candidates included two other Republicans, oilman Jay Murrell, a former Caddo Parish commissioner and Republican activist, and Barrow Peacock, scion of a wealthy Shreveport family. Sheva Sims, an African-American female lawyer, was the only Democratic candidate in the running.

Montgomery led in the primary with 7,524 votes (29 percent) to Shaw's 6,676 ballots (22 percent). Peacock finished third with 4,620 votes (18 percent). Sims ran fourth with 4,564 (17 percent), and Murrell finished last with 3,951 (15 percent). Shaw is considered more politically conservative than Montgomery.

Shaw was first elected to the Louisiana House in the primary on October 21, 1995, when he defeated the Democrat Jeff Rogers, 9,096 votes (66 percent) to 4,759 (34 percent). Rogers was a political unknown and that there was an action pending in the courts involving an alleged arson at the time of the election. There was also a whispering campaign regarding unsubstantiated rumors of Rogers' lifestyle choices. Shaw was unopposed for his second term in 1999.

Shaw received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches in 1955 and 1960, respectively. He subsequently received the Ed.D. degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Shaw is a veteran of the United States Army.

Before his legislative service, Shaw was a classroom teacher, principal of C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, and the supervisor of Caddo Parish public schools. After he left the school system, he was an elected member of the Caddo Parish School Board.

Shaw is a member of the East Shreveport Rotary International. He is Baptist. He and his wife, Mary Ann Shaw, Ph.D., reside in Shreveport.

Shaw established a scholarship endowment at NSU to honor his daughter, Stephanie Shaw and his stepson, Edward Neff Minor, III (November 21, 1963 - March 15, 1995), who both attended NSU. He is also president of the NSU Alumni Association. NSU President Randall Webb attributed the education scholarship to the "generosity of Dr. Buddy Shaw and his family. What Buddy has done in providing this scholarship to honor Stephanie is to put Northwestern in a better position to be competitive. . . . to demonstrate progress."

Shaw, along with his former legislative colleague and current political rival Billy Montgomery, have been inducted into the NSU Hall of Distinguished Educators. Montgomery is also a retired educator who received his bachelor's and master's degrees from NSU.

References

http://www.nsula.edu/news/shaw22.htmhttp://www.nsula.edu/news/shaw22.htm

http://capitolwatch.reallouisiana.com/html/E6081575-47BB-47D2-B904-52B6A6C9067C.shtml

http://www.newshorn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1647&Itemid=121

http://www.enlou.com/officeholders/housedistrict6.htm

http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=Minor&firstname=Edward&start=41

http://www.nsula.edu/news/dieduc08.htm

http://patculverhouseshow.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=102195

http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=102007

http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=11170717

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/ELECTION/711180347