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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Ryan Eugene Gatti
|name=Ryan Eugene Gatti
|birth_date=June 1974
|birth_date=June 1974
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|religion=[[Baptist]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|office=Louisiana State Senator for District 36 (Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes)
|term_start=January 11, 2016
|term_end=
|preceded=Henry Burns
}}
}}
Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a retired military officer, Bossier City businessman, and a departing two-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, originally from Shongaloo in Webster Parish. Gatti polled 14,023 votes (50.6 percent) to Burns' 13,698 (49.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref>
Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a retired military officer, Bossier City businessman, and a departing two-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, originally from Shongaloo in Webster Parish. Gatti polled 14,023 votes (50.6 percent) to Burns' 13,698 (49.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11212015/11212015_Legislative.html|title=Results for Election Date: 11/21/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref>
In his campaign, Gatti ran as a strong intraparty critic of term-limited and failed presidential candidate [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]. He is also a close friend of incoming [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whom he met at the Louisiana State University Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Edwards campaigned at Gatti's law office in 2014.
In his campaign, Gatti ran as a strong intraparty critic of term-limited and failed presidential candidate, [[Governor]] [[Bobby Jindal]]. He is also a close friend of incoming [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whom he met at the Louisiana State University Law Center in [[Baton Rouge]]. Edwards campaigned at Gatti's law office in 2014.
Gatti graduated in 1992 from Airline High School in Bossier City. He was actually in [[Haiti]] on a mission trip at the time of his election to the state Senate.
Gatti graduated in 1992 from Airline High School in Bossier City. He was in [[Haiti]] on a mission trip at the time of his election to the state Senate.
In 2017, Gatti's brother, Robert Hal "Robbie" Gatti, Jr. (born March 1970), lost a special runoff election for the District 8 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Representative James Michael "Mike" Johnson of Benton, Louisiana. [[Raymond Crews]] was elected to succeed Johnson. He polled 3,845 votes (64 percent) to Gatti's 2,150 (36 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical |title=Election Results|date=April 29, 2017|publisher= Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 2, 2017}}</ref>
In 2017, Gatti's brother, Robert Hal "Robbie" Gatti, Jr. (born March 1970), lost a special runoff election for the District 8 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Representative James Michael "Mike" Johnson of Benton, Louisiana. [[Raymond Crews]] was elected to succeed Johnson. He polled 3,845 votes (64 percent) to Gatti's 2,150 (36 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical |title=Election Results|date=April 29, 2017|publisher= Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=May 2, 2017}}</ref>