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William Harold Nungesser, known as Billy Nungesser (born January 10, 1959), is an American politician who will take office as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana on January 11, 2016. A Republican, Nungesser is also the former president of the Plaquemines Parish Commission, having been re-elected to a second four-year term in the 2010 general election in which he topped two opponents with more than 71 percent of the vote.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=West Bank News )〕 His second term as parish president began on January 1, 2011. ==Background== Nungesser is the son of William Aicklen "Billy" Nungesser and the former Ruth Amelia Marks (1932–2012). From 1980 to 1984, the senior Nungesser was the chief of staff during David C. Treen's term as governor. He was later the state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, in which capacity he unexpectedly supported Patrick J. Buchanan for the party's 1992 presidential nomination.〔Timothy Stanley, ''The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan'' (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012), p. 178; ISBN 978-0-312-58174-9〕 Ruth Marks Nungesser was also active in Republican politics as a charter member of Republican Women of Louisiana and a delegate to state and national GOP conventions. Nungesser has a younger brother, Eric H. Nungesser and wife Carole, and two sisters, Nancy A. Nungesser and Heidi N. Landry and husband Marlon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ruth Amelia Marks Nungesser )〕 In 1983, Governor Treen appointed the younger Nungesser to the Lake Pontchartrain and Maurepaus Study Commission. In 1985, Nungesser served on the Orleans Levee Board. While working in his family's offshore catering business, Nungesser found an alternative use for metal ship containers. In 1991, he established General Marine Leasing Company, a business which provides portable living quarters for offshore workers. The company grew to employ two hundred people and reaching $20 million in sales. In 2004, he was the chairman for the Plaquemines Parish United Way. In 2004 and 2005, Nungesser worked with local business leaders to form the Plaquemines Association of Business and Industry or PABI, separate from the statewide Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. He served on the PABI board during its early years. Since vacating the parish presidency, Nungesser has relocated to River Ranch in Lafayette Parish. He announced his second bid for the office of lieutenant governor. He lost the race in 2011 to incumbent Jay Dardenne, who subsequently ran unsuccessfully in 2015 for governor of Louisiana.〔''The Moon Griffon Show'', March 6, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Nungesser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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