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Clyde Cecil Holloway (born November 28, 1943) is an American politician, small business owner and member of the Republican Party who currently serves as one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the since defunct Alexandria-based 8th congressional district from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Republican in the 20th century to represent the northern part of the state in Congress. Holloway won three consecutive elections to the U.S. House from a historically Democratic district. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Louisiana in 1991, finishing fourth in the blanket primary. After redistricting in 1992, his district was abolished and he ran in the 6th congressional district against fellow Republican incumbent Richard Baker, narrowly losing in the runoff. He ran unsuccessful campaigns for the 7th congressional district in 1994, the 5th congressional district in 1996 and 2002 and for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana in 2003. Holloway served as Louisiana state director for the Office of Rural Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from October 2006 to January 2009, then running in a special election for the Louisiana Public Service Commission in April, which he won.〔"Senator drops out of runoff for PSC", ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', April 14, 2009, p. B2.〕 He was re-elected unopposed in 2010. Holloway is also a former member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee from the 27th Representative District. On August 21, 2013, Holloway filed to run in the special election for Louisiana's 5th congressional district following the resignation of Congressman Rodney Alexander. Holloway came in fourth in the jungle primary. Holloway's name has appeared twelve times on a Louisiana congressional ballot. He first ran for Congress in 1980, won his first term in 1986, and last ran in 2013. He has run in four different congressional districts and won three of eleven races for the U.S. House, two of which required runoffs. On August 22, 2014, Holloway filed in the remaining minutes available to run in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the regular 5th congressional district election held on November 4. This marked his fifth attempt to return to Congress since his defeat in 1992. He finished fifth in the contest with 17,875 votes (7.5 percent). The short-term incumbent, Vance McAllister, whom Holloway had endorsed in the special election runoff in 2013, finished fourth with 26,605 votes (11.1 percent). The race now heads to a runoff between Mayor Jamie Mayo of Monroe, an African American and the only Democrat in the running for a seat that was once so Democratic that Republicans did not even bother to contest it, and the top Republican candidate, Ralph Lee Abraham, Jr., a physician and former veterinarian from Mangham in Richland Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election results, November 4, 2014 )〕 ==Early life and career== Holloway is one of seven children born in the small town of Lecompte in Rapides Parish〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clyde C. Holloway in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress )〕 to James Cecil Holloway (October 15, 1909 – September 26, 2006), formerly from Arizona, and the former Ever Christina Barker (December 7, 1912 – December 11, 2006). The Holloways later moved to Forest Hill just west of Lecompte and south of Alexandria, the largest city in central Louisiana. James Holloway earned his livelihood as an electrician at Camp Claiborne and was later employed at the Meeker Sugar Cooperative. He retired as a Rapides Parish school bus driver. The senior Holloways were married for seventy-one years; he preceded her in death by some ten weeks. Mrs. Holloway was the daughter of Charlie and Emma Barker. The senior Holloways are interred at Butters Cemetery in Forest Hill. Clyde Holloway attended the National Aeronautics School in Kansas City, Kansas. His Clyde Holloway Nursery is one of the oldest and largest commercial horticultural nurseries in Forest Hill, generating some $1.7 million in gross receipts annually. Another nurseryman in Forest Hill is Robert W. Bates, a former agent of the United States Secret Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Kelly, Winnfield opens Civic Center with Hall of Fame event: Renovated forestry building is modern, ready to serve for years into the future, January 2005 )〕 Holloway is a former chairman of the board of the private Forest Hill Academy, originally Forest Hill Neighborhood School. He and his wife, Catherine F. "Cathie" Holloway (also born 1943), have four children, Timothy A. Holloway (born 1969), Mark R. Holloway (born 1971), Rebecca L. Holloway (born 1975), and Sara E. Holloway (born 1979), and five grandchildren, Caleb, John Thomas and Ava Holloway and Faith and Evan Ebert. Holloway is a member of the Elwood Baptist Church in Forest Hill, but Mrs. Holloway is Roman Catholic. One of his brothers, Charlie David Holloway (born 1941), is a former member of the Rapides Parish School Board. 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「Clyde C. Holloway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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