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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Billy C. Hudson, Sr.
| office=Mississippi State Senator<br> for District 45 (Forrest and Perry counties)
| term_start=January 2008
| term_end=
| preceded=Tom King
| succeeded=
| birth_date=June 16, 1938
| birth_place=Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]
| citizenship=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Barbara Lee Hudson
| children=Five children
| alma_mater=University of Southern Mississippi
| occupation=Retired rancher and [[business]]man
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| residence=Hattiesburg, Mississippi
}}
'''Billy C. Hudson, Sr.''' (born June 16, 1938), is a retired rancher from his native Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]], who has since 2008 represented District 45 in the Mississippi State Senate. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], his district includes Forrest and Perry counties in the southern portion of his state.<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/hudson.xml|title=Billy Hudson|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He is a former alderman in Magee, Mississippi, and a past Forrest County supervisor (1999-2008), a position akin to the county commissioner in other states. In addition to ranching, he is the former proprietor of Hudson Salvage. A [[Baptist]], he and his wife, the former Kelley Porter, have five children and ten grandchildren.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/69841/billy-hudson-sr#.WefC77pFzb0|title=Billy Hudson, Sr.'s Biography|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson was elected without opposition to the state Senate in November 2007, when the incumbent Tom King did not seek reelection. In 2015, Hudson won his third term in the Senate by defeating the [[Reform Party]] candidate, Eli Jackson, 11,753 votes (86.8 percent) to 1,784 (13.2 percent). No [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] filed to run in his heavily Republican district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Billy_Hudson|title=Billy Hudson|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson is the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and the vice chairman of the County Affairs Committee. he also sits on these committees: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education, (3) Environmental Protection, Conservation, and Water Resources, (4) Labor, and (5) Veterans and Military Affairs.<ref name=pvs/>
In 2008, Senator Hudson voted to require photo identification as a condition for voting in Mississippi. In 2009, he voted to increase the cigarette tax. In 2010, he sponsored the bill to establish [[charter school]]s in Mississippi and voted to place restrictions on employers who hire [[illegal alien]]s. In 2013, he co-sponsored the requirement that physicians administer [[abortion]] prescriptions. In 2014, he voted to prohibit abortions in Mississippi past twenty weeks of gestation of the unborn. He also backed the proposal that abortion counseling not be mentioned by crisis pregnancy centers in the state, but that measure failed to gain Senate approval.<ref name=voting/>
In 2016, Hudson voted to prohibit state funds to the large abortion provider, [[Planned Parenthood]]. He did not vote on HB 1523, which attempts to guarantee within Mississippi protections for religious beliefs and matters of moral conscience in regard to [[Christian]]s being mandated to service [[homosexual]] activities. He did not vote on the issue of prohibiting local governments from establishing [[sanctuary city]] policies. In 2017, he backed the legislation which authorizes additional methods of execution in Mississippi and co-sponsored another measure to declare as a [[hate crime]] the targeting of law-enforcement officers by the lawless element. He voted to retain a private contractor to audit [[Medicaid]].<ref name=voting>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/69841/billy-hudson-sr#.WefIP7pFzb0|title=Billy Hudson, Sr.'s Voting Records|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Pro-life]]
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Billy C. Hudson, Sr.
| office=Mississippi State Senator<br> for District 45 (Forrest and Perry counties)
| term_start=January 2008
| term_end=
| preceded=Tom King
| succeeded=
| birth_date=June 16, 1938
| birth_place=Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]]
| citizenship=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| spouse=Barbara Lee Hudson
| children=Five children
| alma_mater=University of Southern Mississippi
| occupation=Retired rancher and [[business]]man
| religion=[[Baptist]]
| residence=Hattiesburg, Mississippi
}}
'''Billy C. Hudson, Sr.''' (born June 16, 1938), is a retired rancher from his native Hattiesburg, [[Mississippi]], who has since 2008 represented District 45 in the Mississippi State Senate. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], his district includes Forrest and Perry counties in the southern portion of his state.<ref name=billstatus>{{cite web|url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/hudson.xml|title=Billy Hudson|publisher=Billstatus.ls.state.ms.us|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He is a former alderman in Magee, Mississippi, and a past Forrest County supervisor (1999-2008), a position akin to the county commissioner in other states. In addition to ranching, he is the former proprietor of Hudson Salvage. A [[Baptist]], he and his wife, the former Kelley Porter, have five children and ten grandchildren.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/69841/billy-hudson-sr#.WefC77pFzb0|title=Billy Hudson, Sr.'s Biography|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson was elected without opposition to the state Senate in November 2007, when the incumbent Tom King did not seek reelection. In 2015, Hudson won his third term in the Senate by defeating the [[Reform Party]] candidate, Eli Jackson, 11,753 votes (86.8 percent) to 1,784 (13.2 percent). No [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] filed to run in his heavily Republican district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Billy_Hudson|title=Billy Hudson|publisher=Ballotpedia.org|accessdate=October 18, 2017}}</ref>
Hudson is the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and the vice chairman of the County Affairs Committee. he also sits on these committees: (1) Agriculture, (2) Education, (3) Environmental Protection, Conservation, and Water Resources, (4) Labor, and (5) Veterans and Military Affairs.<ref name=pvs/>
In 2008, Senator Hudson voted to require photo identification as a condition for voting in Mississippi. In 2009, he voted to increase the cigarette tax. In 2010, he sponsored the bill to establish [[charter school]]s in Mississippi and voted to place restrictions on employers who hire [[illegal alien]]s. In 2013, he co-sponsored the requirement that physicians administer [[abortion]] prescriptions. In 2014, he voted to prohibit abortions in Mississippi past twenty weeks of gestation of the unborn. He also backed the proposal that abortion counseling not be mentioned by crisis pregnancy centers in the state, but that measure failed to gain Senate approval.<ref name=voting/>
In 2016, Hudson voted to prohibit state funds to the large abortion provider, [[Planned Parenthood]]. He did not vote on HB 1523, which attempts to guarantee within Mississippi protections for religious beliefs and matters of moral conscience in regard to [[Christian]]s being mandated to service [[homosexual]] activities. He did not vote on the issue of prohibiting local governments from establishing [[sanctuary city]] policies. In 2017, he backed the legislation which authorizes additional methods of execution in Mississippi and co-sponsored another measure to declare as a [[hate crime]] the targeting of law-enforcement officers by the lawless element. He voted to retain a private contractor to audit [[Medicaid]].<ref name=voting>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/69841/billy-hudson-sr#.WefIP7pFzb0|title=Billy Hudson, Sr.'s Voting Records|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 17, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, Billy}}
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Conservatives]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Pro-life]]