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William Joseph "Joe" McPherson, Jr., (born December 18, 1950) is a Democratic former member of the Louisiana State Senate from Woodworth, a small community south of Alexandria, Louisiana, the seat of government of Rapides Parish and the largest city in the Central Louisiana region. McPherson’s service extends from 1984 to 1996 and 2000 to 2012, when his last term expired.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2004", pp. 96-97 )〕 McPherson is a graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. He also attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His business activities include retail, commercial property, and health care facilities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senator Joe McPherson, District 29 )〕 He and his wife, Karen, have a son, Joe, III.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe McPherson Shows Strong Lead in PSC Race )〕 ==State senate elections== McPherson was first elected to the Senate in 1983, when he resided in Pineville. He unseated incumbent fellow Democrat Ned Randolph, who subsequently served from 1986 to 2006) as the mayor of Alexandria. Randolph’s defeat came in the same election cycle that Edwin Washington Edwards staged his gubernatorial comeback for a third nonconsecutive term against incumbent Republican David C. Treen. In 1987, McPherson defeated the Republican Jock Scott, an outgoing member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who sought to move up to the Senate, and former senator Cecil R. Blair of Lecompte, who was seeking a comeback, having been defeated in 1975 by Ned Randolph.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Primary election returns, October 24, 1987 )〕 McPherson won again on November 16, 1991, over the Republican Robert W. Bates, 23,428 votes (56.8 percent) to 17,819 (43.2 percent).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana general election returns, November 19, 1991 )〕Three other Democratic candidates, including state Representative Charles R. Herring of Alexandria and singer Jay Chevalier, had been eliminated in the primary election held on October 19.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Primary election returns, October 19, 1991 )〕 McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995. Voters chose the Democrat B.G. Dyess, an ordained Baptist minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964 to 1988. When Dyess did not seek a second term in 1999, McPherson returned to claim the seat once again, having defeated the Republican State Representative Randy Wiggins of Pineville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 23, 1999 )〕 McPherson was reelected in 2003 and 2007 by wide margins in each election over his fellow Democrat Jerry M. Guillory, who had also run in the 1999 McPherson-Wiggins race.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 20, 2007 )〕 McPherson was ineligible to seek a fourth consecutive Senate term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. In all, he served a total of six full terms in the Senate and was succeeded by the African American outgoing state Representative Rick Gallot of Grambling, who polled just over 50 percent of the vote in the primary. After the 2010 census, District 29 was reconfigured to include the black communities in seven parishes: Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana primary election returns, October 22, 2011 )〕 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「Joe McPherson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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