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Phillip Wesley Preis, Sr., known as Phil Preis (born April 18, 1950), is a Democratic politician and attorney, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who specializes in mergers and acquisitions. A native of Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, Preis is the son of Patricia M. Preis of Newellton and Edwin Gustav Preis, Sr. (1916–2011), a former Newellton mayor, who was also from 1976 to 1977 the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edwin G. Preis )〕 Preis graduated in 1968 from the defunct Newellton High School. In 1972, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He procured his Juris Doctor degree in 1975 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is affiliated with Omicron Delta Kappa; Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phillip W. Preis, Lawyer Profile )〕 His Baton Rouge law firm is Preis Gordon. Preis ran unsuccessfully for governor in both 1995 and 1999. In the October 21, 1995 gubernatorial election, he finished fifth in a field of sixteen candidates with 9.03 percent of the vote. He received a plurality of the vote in his native Tensas Parish (36.91 percent) and in neighboring Franklin Parish (26.17 percent), which includes Winnsboro.〔Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary election returns, October 21, 1995, Retrieved October 30, 2008.〕 In the October 23, 1999 gubernatorial election, Preis ran fourth among eleven candidates, having polled 1.81 percent of the statewide vote. That race was decisively won by the incumbent Republican Governor Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.〔Louisiana Secretary of State, Gubernatorial primary ele4ction returns, October 23, 1999, Retrieved October 30, 2008.〕 Preis and his wife, Terry, have four children, Phillip Preis, Jr., Caroline Preis Graham, Michael Preis, of Austin, Texas, and Jennifer Preis, of Dallas, Texas. Preis's brother, Edwin G. Preis, Jr. (born 1947), is an attorney with the firm, Preis and Roy in Lafayette, Louisiana. His sister, Patricia Preis Thompson, is married to Dr. Tony Thompson, formerly of Newellton and now of Nacogdoches, Texas. His late father-in-law was the Tensas Parish School Superintendent Charles Ed Thompson.〔 ==References== 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「Phil Preis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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