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==Political life==
==Political life==
===Republican pioneer===
===Republican pioneer===
Guin was a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee and the Caddo Parish Republican Executive Committee.<ref name=zoominfo/> On March 3, 1964, he ran unsuccessfully for an at-large seat from Caddo Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Two of his five ticket-mates, Taylor Walters O'Hearn and Morley Alvin Hudson, won their races and became the first members of their party to serve in the state House since [[Reconstruction]]. The two other defeated Republican legislative candidates were Arthur Sour, Jr.,<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', March 4, 1964, p. 1.</ref> who in 1972 won election to the state House and served for twenty years, and Fielder Edd Calhoun (1931–2012), an insurance agent and civic figure originally from [[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=fielder-calhoun&pid=156372368|title=Obituary of Fielder Calhoun|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=March 9, 2012}}</ref>
Guin was a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee and the Caddo Parish Republican Executive Committee.<ref name=zoominfo/> On March 3, 1964, he ran unsuccessfully for an at-large seat from Caddo Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Two of his five ticket-mates, Taylor Walters O'Hearn and Morley Alvin Hudson, won their races and became the first members of their party to serve in the state House since [[Reconstruction]]. The two other defeated Republican legislative candidates were Arthur Sour, Jr.,<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'', March 4, 1964, p. 1.</ref> who in 1972 won election to the state House and served for twenty years, and Fielder Edd Calhoun (1931–2012), an insurance agent and civic figure originally from [[Oklahoma City]], [[Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=fielder-calhoun&pid=156372368|title=Obituary of Fielder Calhoun|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=March 9, 2012}}</ref>
===Abolition of the commission government===
===Abolition of the commission government===
Guin served on the council with another Republican pioneer in Caddo Parish, George Aubrey Burton, Jr. (1926-2014), who from 1971 to 1978 was the last to hold the former position of municipal commissioner of finance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=george-a-burton&pid=171346250|title=George A. Burton, Jr. obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=June 15, 2014}}</ref>
In 1978, the Shreveport commission government was abolished through a federal court order citing the at-large election system as having operated "invidiously to minimize or cancel the voting power of black electors."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.casetext.com/case/blacks-u-for-lasting-leadership-v-c-of-shreveport#.U9KZbct0wfg|title=''Blacks United for Lasting Leadership v. City of Shreveport|date=1976|publisher=casetext.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> With the commissioners' positions effectively abolished, Guin hence ran for mayor under the new and still serving mayor-council government. His opponents were the Democrats Donald E. Hathaway, his council colleague who headed the Department of Public Works, and William T. "Bill" Hanna, an automobile dealer who ultimately won the position. Less than two years after his election to the last city council under the commission government, Guin finished with only 1,888 votes (3.4 percent).<ref>''The Shreveport Times'', September 17, 1978, p. 1.</ref>
In 1978, the Shreveport commission government was abolished through a federal court order citing the at-large election system as having operated "invidiously to minimize or cancel the voting power of black electors."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.casetext.com/case/blacks-u-for-lasting-leadership-v-c-of-shreveport#.U9KZbct0wfg|title=''Blacks United for Lasting Leadership v. City of Shreveport|date=1976|publisher=casetext.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> With the commissioners' positions effectively abolished, Guin hence ran for mayor under the new and still serving mayor-council government. His opponents were the Democrats Donald E. Hathaway, his council colleague who headed the Department of Public Works, and William T. "Bill" Hanna, an automobile dealer who ultimately won the position. Less than two years after his election to the last city council under the commission government, Guin finished with only 1,888 votes (3.4 percent).<ref>''The Shreveport Times'', September 17, 1978, p. 1.</ref>