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'''Ryan Eugene Gatti''' (born June 10, 1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3363164|title=Ryan Gatti, June 1974|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] from [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 36, which encompasses Bossier, Webster, Bienville, and Claiborne parishes in the northwestern portion of the state. On January 11, 2016, he succeeded fellow [[Moderate Republican]] Robert Roy Adley, who was term-limited after thirteen years in the Senate.

'''Ryan Eugene Gatti''' (born June 10, 1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3363164|title=Ryan Gatti, June 1974|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 22, 2015}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] from [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Moderate Republican]] member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 36, which encompasses Bossier, Webster, Bienville, and Claiborne parishes in the northwestern portion of the state. On January 11, 2016, he succeeded fellow [[Moderate Republican]] Robert Roy Adley, who was term-limited after thirteen years in the Senate.

Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican [[Henry Burns]], a retired military officer, Bossier City [[business]]man, 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 bid for a second term on October 12, 2019, Gatti placed second in a three-candidate field with 12,882 votes (38 percent). His conservative opponent, Robert Mills, who carried many party endorsements, finished first in the primary with 16,305 (48 percent). In third place was [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Mattie Preston, who drew 4,976 votes (15 percent). Presumably Preston's voters could be decisive in the runoof election pending on November 16.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>

 

In 2015, Gatti had narrowly defeated fellow Republican [[Henry Burns]], a retired military officer, Bossier City [[business]]man, 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.