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'''Larry Collins Stutts''' (born May 1954)<ref name=pvs>{{cite web |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/152242/larry-stutts|title=Larry Stutts |publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 27, 2017}}</ref> is a [[physician]] from Tuscumbia, [[Alabama]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Alabama State Senate for District 6 which encompasses Colbert, Franklin, and parts of Marion, Lawrence, and Lauderdale counties in the northwestern portion of the state. First elected on November 4, 2014, he upset the incumbent [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Roger Bedford, Jr., by sixty-seven votes.

'''Larry Collins Stutts''' (born May 1954)<ref name=pvs>{{cite web |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/152242/larry-stutts|title=Larry Stutts |publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=October 27, 2017}}</ref> is a [[physician]] from Tuscumbia, [[Alabama]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Alabama State Senate for District 6 which encompasses Colbert, Franklin, and parts of Marion, Lawrence, and Lauderdale counties in the northwestern portion of the state. First elected on November 4, 2014, he upset the incumbent [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Roger Bedford, Jr., by sixty-seven votes.

A native of Sheffield, Alabama, Stutts graduated in 1979 from the veterinary school at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and moved to Columbus, [[Georgia]], to practice veterinary medicine. However, he soon returned to his hometown of Cherokee, Alabama. He thereafter graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. An obstetrician and gynecologist since 1992, Dr. Stutts has delivered more than ten thousand babies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet Larry|url=http://www.larrystutts.com/#!meet-larry/cjg9|website=Senator Larry Stutts|publisher=Stutt for Senate|accessdate=July 6, 2016}}</ref>He has also taught at Northwest-Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He is a member of Kiwanis International in Tuscumbia. Stutts attends the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Tuscumbia. He and his wife, Jackie, have four children.<ref name=pvs/>

Born in Sheffield, Alabama, Stutts is the son of an accountant-father and a nurse-mother. He graduated in 1979 from the veterinary school at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and moved to Columbus, [[Georgia]], to practice veterinary medicine. However, he soon returned to his hometown of Cherokee, seventeen miles west of Tuscumbia. He thereafter graduated from the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. An obstetrician and gynecologist since 1992, Dr. Stutts has delivered more than ten thousand babies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet Larry|url=http://www.larrystutts.com/#!meet-larry/cjg9|website=Senator Larry Stutts|publisher=Stutt for Senate|accessdate=October 27, 2017}}</ref> He has also taught at Northwest-Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He is a member of Kiwanis International in Tuscumbia. Stutts attends the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Tuscumbia. He and his wife, Jackie, have four children.<ref name=pvs/>

Stutts ran for the state Senate on a platform to repeal state regulations enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, a measure pushed by then [[U.S. President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] and still in force. Following a recount, Stutts won, 17,641 votes (50.06 percent) to Roger Bedford's 17,574 (49.87 percent).<ref>{{cite web|title=Stutts Wins Recount in District 6|url=http://www.alreporter.com/2014/12/02/stutts-wins-recount-in-district-6/|website=ALReporter.com|publisher=''Alabama Political Reporter''|author=Brandon Moseley|accessdate=March 9, 2017}}</ref>

Stutts ran for the state Senate on a platform to repeal state regulations enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, a measure pushed by then [[U.S. President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] and still in force. Following a recount, Stutts won, 17,641 votes (50.06 percent) to Roger Bedford's 17,574 (49.87 percent).<ref>{{cite web|title=Stutts Wins Recount in District 6|url=http://www.alreporter.com/2014/12/02/stutts-wins-recount-in-district-6/|website=ALReporter.com|publisher=''Alabama Political Reporter''|author=Brandon Moseley|accessdate=March 9, 2017}}</ref>