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Guin also served with the U.S. Army during the [[Korean War]]. He remained thereafter in the [[United States Army]] Reserve for three decades. On his return to Shreveport, he became affiliated with E. M. Freeman and Associates and United Gas before he formed the former B. J. Guin Engineering Company.<ref name=zoominfo>Billy James Guin, Sr., Zoominfo.com, July 24, 2014.</ref>
Guin also served with the U.S. Army during the [[Korean War]]. He remained thereafter in the [[United States Army]] Reserve for three decades. On his return to Shreveport, he became affiliated with E. M. Freeman and Associates and United Gas before he formed the former B. J. Guin Engineering Company.<ref name=zoominfo>Billy James Guin, Sr., Zoominfo.com, July 24, 2014.</ref>
==Political life==
==Political life==
===Republican pioneer===
===Republican pioneer===
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>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==