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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 [[Moderate Republican]] former 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]] former 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 Adley (Louisiana politician)|Robert Roy Adley]], who was term-limited after thirteen years in the Senate.

In his bid for a second term in the [[primary]] on October 12, 2019, Gatti placed second in a three-candidate field with 12,882 votes (38 percent). His proclaimed [[conservative]] opponent, [[Robert Mills]], who carried many party endorsements, including [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Neely Kennedy]] and [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]], finished first in the primary with 16,305 votes (48 percent). In third place was [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Mattie Preston, who drew 4,976 votes (15 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> In the runoff contest, Mills polled 22,050 votes (56 percent) to unseat Gatti, who polled 17,209 votes (44 percent). Gatti's close friend, [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]], a Democrat, in that same election turned back the Republican challenge waged by  [[Baton Rouge]] [[business]]man [[Eddie Rispone]].

In his bid for a second term in the [[primary]] on October 12, 2019, Gatti placed second in a three-candidate field with 12,882 votes (38 percent). His proclaimed [[conservative]] opponent, [[Robert Mills]], who carried many party endorsements, including [[U.S. Senator]] [[John Neely Kennedy]] and [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]], finished first in the primary with 16,305 votes (48 percent). In third place was [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Mattie Preston, who drew 4,976 votes (15 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> In the runoff contest, Mills polled 22,050 votes (56 percent) to unseat Gatti, who polled 17,209 votes (44 percent). Gatti's close friend, [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]], a Democrat, in that same election turned back the Republican challenge waged by  [[Baton Rouge]] [[business]]man [[Eddie Rispone]].