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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Stephen Christopher Dwight
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 35 (Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes)
|term_start=January 11, 2016
|term_end=
|preceded=[[Brett Geymann]]
|succeeded=
|birth_date=July 3, 1977
|birth_place=[[Lake Charles]] Louisiana, USA
|spouse=Jessica Brown Dwight (married 2004)
|children=Riley, Peyton, and Hudson Dwight
|party=Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Attorney]]
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Sam Houston High School (Moss Bluff, Louisiana)<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
[[Southern University Law Center]]}}
'''Stephen Christopher Dwight''' (born July 3, 1977)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stephen-dwight/stephendwight?valid=true&
|title=Stephen Dwight|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] in [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 35 in Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes. Unopposed in the [[nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 24, 2015, Dwight succeeded the term-limited [[Brett Geymann]] when the legislature reconvened on January 11, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://winwithjmc.com/archives/6832?ct=t(9_11_2015)|title=Decision 2015: The end of candidate qualifying|date=September 10, 2015|publisher=JMC Enterprises|accessdate=September 12, 2015}}</ref>
Dwight is a graduate of Sam Houston High School in Moss Bluff in Calcasieu Parish and [[Louisiana State University]] and the Southern University Law Center, both in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. He was first licensed to practice law in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/70601-la-stephen-dwight-4334658.html|title=Stephen Christopher Dwight|publisher=avvo.com|accessdate=September 13, 2015}}</ref> He is a former city attorney and prosecutor for Westlake, also in Calcasieu Parish and was previously the general counsel for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Department.
He and his wife, the former Jessica Brown, a librarian at Moss Bluff Elementary School, married in 2004. Residents of Moss Bluff, the Dwights have three children, Riley, Peyton, and Hudson. He is a [[Methodist]].
===Joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker===
Dwight won reelection in the primary held on October 12, 2019. He defeated another Republican, Jacob Lane Marceaux (born 1984). Dwight polled 9,466 votes (73 percent) to Marceaux's 3,555 (27 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
Dwight is less [[conservative]] than his House predecessor, Brett Geymann. On January 13, 2020, his first day as a state representative in his second term, Dwight was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers along with the two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican dissenters.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]
|name=Stephen Christopher Dwight
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for<br> District 35 (Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes)
|term_start=January 11, 2016
|term_end=
|preceded=[[Brett Geymann]]
|succeeded=
|birth_date=July 3, 1977
|birth_place=[[Lake Charles]] Louisiana, USA
|spouse=Jessica Brown Dwight (married 2004)
|children=Riley, Peyton, and Hudson Dwight
|party=Republican Party|Republican]]
|occupation=[[Attorney]]
|religion=[[Methodist]]
|alma_mater=Sam Houston High School (Moss Bluff, Louisiana)<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
[[Southern University Law Center]]}}
'''Stephen Christopher Dwight''' (born July 3, 1977)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stephen-dwight/stephendwight?valid=true&
|title=Stephen Dwight|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=February 1, 2020}}</ref> is an [[attorney]] in [[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 35 in Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes. Unopposed in the [[nonpartisan blanket [[primary]] held on October 24, 2015, Dwight succeeded the term-limited [[Brett Geymann]] when the legislature reconvened on January 11, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://winwithjmc.com/archives/6832?ct=t(9_11_2015)|title=Decision 2015: The end of candidate qualifying|date=September 10, 2015|publisher=JMC Enterprises|accessdate=September 12, 2015}}</ref>
Dwight is a graduate of Sam Houston High School in Moss Bluff in Calcasieu Parish and [[Louisiana State University]] and the Southern University Law Center, both in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. He was first licensed to practice law in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/70601-la-stephen-dwight-4334658.html|title=Stephen Christopher Dwight|publisher=avvo.com|accessdate=September 13, 2015}}</ref> He is a former city attorney and prosecutor for Westlake, also in Calcasieu Parish and was previously the general counsel for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Department.
He and his wife, the former Jessica Brown, a librarian at Moss Bluff Elementary School, married in 2004. Residents of Moss Bluff, the Dwights have three children, Riley, Peyton, and Hudson. He is a [[Methodist]].
===Joins Democrats in choosing House Speaker===
Dwight won reelection in the primary held on October 12, 2019. He defeated another Republican, Jacob Lane Marceaux (born 1984). Dwight polled 9,466 votes (73 percent) to Marceaux's 3,555 (27 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
Dwight is less [[conservative]] than his House predecessor, Brett Geymann. On January 13, 2020, his first day as a state representative in his second term, Dwight was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers along with the two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican dissenters.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dwight, Stephen}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:United Methodists]]