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'''Stuart James Bishop''' (born August 19, 1975)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stuart-bishop/stewartbis29452bt|title=Stuart Bishop|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref> is a [[business]]man in [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 43. In 2012, he succeeded his fellow  Republican, [[Page Cortez]] of Lafayette, who was instead elected state senator and was elevated to Senate President on January 13, 2020.

'''Stuart James Bishop''' (born August 19, 1975)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stuart-bishop/stewartbis29452bt|title=Stuart Bishop|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 31, 2020}}</ref> is a [[business]]man in [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]], who is the [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 43. In 2012, he succeeded his fellow  Republican, [[Page Cortez]] of Lafayette, who was instead elected state senator and was elevated to Senate President on January 13, 2020.

With no previous political experience, Bishop was the only unopposed candidate for an open House seat in the Louisiana nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 22, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapolitics.com/|title=Two New Senators Walk in Unopposed|publisher=lapolitics.com|accessdate=September 16, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​ Similarly, Cortez had no opponent in the 2011 Senate race to succeed the term-limited [[Michael J. Michot]], another Lafayette businessman and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned Republican.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110909/NEWS01/110909012/Analysis-Many-La-incumbents-get-free-pass-|title=Many La. incumbents get a free pass|date=September 9, 2011|publisher=The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=September 11, 2011; no longer on-line</ref>​

With no previous political experience, Bishop was the only unopposed candidate for an open House seat in the Louisiana nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 22, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapolitics.com/|title=Two New Senators Walk in Unopposed|publisher=lapolitics.com|accessdate=September 16, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref>​ Similarly, Cortez had no opponent in the 2011 Senate race to succeed the term-limited [[Michael J. Michot]], another Lafayette businessman and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned Republican.<ref>"Many La. incumbents get a free pass," ''The Alexandria Town Talk,'' September 9, 2011.</ref>​

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