Alan Seabaugh
| Alan Thomas Seabaugh | |
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Louisiana State Senator for District 31 (portions of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, Webster, and Winn parishes)
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Louie Bernard (retired) |
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Louisiana State Representative for District 5 (Caddo Parish)
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| In office October 2010 – January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Wayne Waddell (resigned) |
| Succeeded by | Dennis Bamburg, Jr. (unopposed) |
| Born | 1967 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Laura McClelland Seabaugh |
| Children | Four daughters |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University (Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate) |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Alan Thomas Seabaugh (born 1967) is an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 31, the largest senate district in the state geographically. It now encompasses parts of ten parishes in North and Central Louisiana. Seabaugh was elected to the Senate as fellow Republican Jeff Landry won the governorship. Landry is a strong Seabaugh supporter.
Seabaugh is he outgoing state representative for District 5 in Caddo Parish, a seat to which he was first victorious in a special election in 2010. His House seat passes to Dennis Bamburg Jr., who ran unopposed for the position in the primary election held on October 14, 2023.
An attorney in Shreveport, Sebaugh is the managing partner of the Seabaugh, Joffrion, Sepulvado & Victory firm. The practice encompasses real estate law, insurance claims, and contracts. He is a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions. In 2012, Representative Seabaugh was elected vice chairman of the state House Republican delegation.
In 2008 Seabaugh was a delegate and vice chairman of the Louisiana delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention held that year in the capital city of St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a Louisiana presidential elector that year and cast his votes for the unsuccessful McCain/Palin ticket. He was a delegate to the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference which met in New Orleans.
He has been affiliated with the Christian nationalist legal organization, the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group known for opposition to LGBTQ issues.[1]
In 2007, the conservative Seabaugh unsuccessfully contested the state Senate District 38 seat but lost to fellow Republican Sherri Smith Buffington, a Moderate Republican.
Term-limited in the House, Seabaugh won election to state Senate District 31 in the 2023 primary. He defeated Michael McConathy, a former men's basketball coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, a former Democrat who switched to Republican registration to make the race. Seabaugh won the Senate election with 16,982 votes (54 percent) to McConathy's 14,355 (46 percent). Seabaugh won five of the ten parishes in the district.[2]
