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|term_start=1996
|term_start=1996
|term_end=2000
|term_end=2000
|preceded=Rick Lamar Farrar
|preceded=[[Rick L. Farrar]]
|succeeded=Rick L. Farrar
|succeeded=Rick Lamar Farrar
|birth_date=February 13, 1951
|birth_date=February 13, 1951
|birth_place=Louisiana
|birth_place=Louisiana
In 2011, Wiggins failed in a bid to unseat fellow Republican State Representative [[Chris Hazel]] of Ball, north of Pineville, who won a second term in the District 27 seat<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Return, October 22, 2011.</ref> since elected to a state district judgeship.
In 2011, Wiggins failed in a bid to unseat fellow Republican State Representative [[Chris Hazel]] of Ball, north of Pineville, who won a second term in the District 27 seat<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Return, October 22, 2011.</ref> since elected to a state district judgeship.
In 2019, he was again an unsuccessful state Senator in the District 29 race, which encompasses [[African-American]] constituents in seven parishes. He lost to the incumbent Jay Luneau, an Alexandra Democratic lawyer. Luneau polled 16,196 votes (61.5 percent) to Wiggins' 10,158 (38.5 percent). Wiggins won only in Grant and Winn parishes and made particularly weak showings in Lincoln, Natchitoches, and Rapides parishes which supplied Luneau's margin of victory.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
In 2019, he was again an unsuccessful candidate for state senator in the District 29 race, which encompasses [[African-American]] constituents in seven parishes. He lost to the incumbent Jay Luneau, an Alexandra Democratic lawyer. Luneau polled 16,196 votes (61.5 percent) to Wiggins' 10,158 (38.5 percent). Wiggins won only in Grant and Winn parishes and made particularly weak showings in Lincoln, Natchitoches, and Rapides parishes which supplied Luneau's margin of victory.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> Luneau first won his seat in the 2015 nonpartisan blanket primary over the African-American conservative Republican, [[Joy Dara]], a native of [[Nigeria]].
Luneau first won his seat in the 2015 nonpartisan blanket primary over the African-American conservative Republican, [[Joy Dara]], a native of [[Nigeria]].
==Personal life==
==Personal life==