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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Mickey James Guillory
|image=Mickey Guillory of LA.jpg
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative <br> for District 41 (Acadia, Evangeline,<br> and St. Landry parishes)
|term_start=January 2004
|term_end=January 2016
|preceded=[[Greg Fruge]]
|succeeded=[[Phillip DeVillier]]
|birth_date=February 29, 1940
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
|residence=Eunice, [[Louisiana]], USA
|death_date=
|death_place=
|resting_place=
|spouse=
|children=
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|occupation=Retired state police officer
|alma_mater=Louisiana State University at Eunice<br>
[[Louisiana State University]]<br>
Louisiana State Police Academy
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'''Mickey James Guillory''' (born February 29, 1940)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mickey-guillory/e340362607398|title=Mickey Guilllory|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=January 13, 2021</ref> is a retired state police officer from Eunice, [[Louisiana]], who is a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] former state representative for District 41, which encompasses Acadia, Evangeline, and St. Landry parishes in the southern portion of his state. First elected in 2003, he was term-limited and ineligible to run again in the October 2015 nonpartisan blanket [[primary]].<ref name=mguillory>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Mickey J. Guillory|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=January 13, 2021}}</ref>

==Background==
Guillory attended the two-year [[Louisiana State University]] in Eunice and on the main LSU campus in [[Baton Rouge]]. He also graduated from the Louisiana Police Academy.<ref name=mguillory/> He has formerly resided in Glen Ellyn, near [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[Richmond]], [[Virginia]], [[Cheyenne]], [[Wyoming]], [[New Orleans]], and Baton Rouge, dates unavailable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&formname=name&qf=Mickey&qmi=J&qn=Guillory&qcs=Eunice%2C+Louisiana&focusfirst=1|title=Mickey James Guillory|publisher=intelius.com|accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref>

He is also a former Eunice city marshal.

==Political life==

On October 4, 2003, with 7,938 votes (58.2 percent), Guillory unseated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] Representative [[Greg Fruge]], also of Eunice. Fruge trailed with 5,650 votes (41.6 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10042003/10042003_Legislative.html|title=Election returns, October 4, 2003|publisher=[[Louisiana Secretary of State]]|accessdate=April 19, 2015}}</ref> Fruge may have been damaged in his reelection bid when the chancellor of LSU at Eunice attended Guillory’s announcement of candidacy.<ref>''Louisiana Politics'' by John Maginnis, accessed October 1, 2009, link no longer available</ref> Guillory faced no opposition in his 2007 and 2011 re-election bids.

Representative Guillory served on the Louisiana Rural Caucus, the Acadiana delegations, and the Democratic Caucus. He serves on these committee: (1) Criminal Justice, (2) Labor and Industrial Relations, (3) Ways and Means, (4) Joint Capital Outlay, (5) House and Joint Homeland Security, and (6) Atchafalaya Basin Program Oversight.<ref name=mguillory/>

His legislative ratings ranged from 33 to 94 percent from the [[conservative]] Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. In 2013 and 2014, the Louisiana Family Forum scored him 67 and 88 percent, respectively. Since 2008, he was rated all but one year as 100 percent by Louisiana [[Right to Life]]. In 2006 and 2007, he was rated 55 percent by the Humane Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/35347/mickey-guillory#.VTOv_cstEqQ|title=Mickey Guillory's Ratings and Endorsements|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=January 13, 2021}}</ref>

In 2014, Guillory supported the requirement that [[abortion]] providers have hospital admitting privileges near their clinics. That same year, he voted to extend the time for implementation of the [[Common Core]] State Standards Initiative. He did not vote on the matter of forbidding the practice of transporting dogs in open truck beds on interstate highways.<ref name=votingrecords/>

In 2013, Guillory voted to increase judicial pay and co-sponsored lifetime concealed carry gun permits. In 2012, he voted to prohibit the use of [[cell phone]]s while driving and opposed state tax incentives to recruit a [[National Basketball Association]] team to Louisiana. He did not vote on the matter of reducing the number of hours that polling locations remain open. Louisiana has traditionally had 14-hour polling days. In 2011, he did not vote on the requirement for drug testing of welfare recipients.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/35347/mickey-guillory#.VTOxRcstEqQ |title=Mickey Guillory's Voting Records|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=January 13, 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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