- 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 Powellbirth_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 ParishSchool 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 RepublicanBilly Montgomery in theNovember 17 ,2007 ,general election to procure the District 37 seat vacated by the term-limited SenatorMax T. Malone ofShreveport . 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 retirededucator , Shaw is also a former member of both theCaddo 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,oil man Jay Murrell, a former Caddo Parish commissioner and Republican activist, and Barrow Peacock,scion of a wealthy Shreveport family. Sheva Sims, anAfrican-American femalelawyer , 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 theEd.D. degree fromLouisiana State University inBaton Rouge . Shaw is a veteran of theUnited States Army .Before his legislative service, Shaw was a classroom
teacher , principal ofC.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, and the supervisor of Caddo Parishpublic 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 isBaptist . 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 PresidentRandall 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
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