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  | office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 36 (Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne,<br> and Webster parishes)

  | office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator for District 36 (Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne,<br> and Webster parishes)

  | term_start=January 13, 2020

  | term_start=January 13, 2020

  | predecessor=[[Ryan Gatti]]

  |term_end=January 2024

| preceded=[[Ryan Gatti]]

| succeeded=[[Adam Bass]]

  | birth_date=April 1, 1953

  | birth_date=April 1, 1953

  | birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana<br>

  | birth_place=[[Shreveport]], Louisiana<br>

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'''Robert Michael Mills''' (born April 1, 1953) is the state senator for District 36 in Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. Running on a [[conservative]] platform and a life-long registered [[Republican Party|Republican]], Mills unseated [[Ryan Gatti]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from [[Bossier City]], who was seeking his second term in the [[general election]] held on November 16, 2019. Mills is one the first state legislative candidates to be endorsed by [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]], who urged voter support for Mills in pre-election rallies in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] and Bossier City while Trump was campaigning for the unsuccessful Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate, [[Eddie Rispone]].

'''Robert Michael Mills''' (born April 1, 1953) is the departing state senator for District 36 in Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster parishes in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. Running on a [[conservative]] platform and a life-long registered [[Republican Party|Republican]], Mills unseated [[Ryan Gatti]], a [[Moderate Republican]] from [[Bossier City]], who was seeking his second term in the [[general election]] held on November 16, 2019. Mills is one the first state legislative candidates to be endorsed by [[U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]], who urged voter support for Mills in pre-election rallies in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] and Bossier City while Trump was campaigning for the unsuccessful Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] candidate, [[Eddie Rispone]].

==Background==

==Background==

In May 2021, Mills, who campaigned two years earlier as a conservative, joined five other North Louisiana state senators previously considered conservatives, [[Barrow Peacock]], [[Jay Morris]], [[Barry Milligan]], [[Mike Reese]], and [[Stewart Cathey]], in voting to extend a $400 million temporary state sales tax (.45 percent) even though the state is awaiting a windfall in federal [[coronavirus]] stimulus funding. Mills' vote was even in contrast to the Democratic Senator [[Greg Tarver]] of Caddo Parish, who opposed the tax extension.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' May 28, 2021.</ref>

In May 2021, Mills, who campaigned two years earlier as a conservative, joined five other North Louisiana state senators previously considered conservatives, [[Barrow Peacock]], [[Jay Morris]], [[Barry Milligan]], [[Mike Reese]], and [[Stewart Cathey]], in voting to extend a $400 million temporary state sales tax (.45 percent) even though the state is awaiting a windfall in federal [[coronavirus]] stimulus funding. Mills' vote was even in contrast to the Democratic Senator [[Greg Tarver]] of Caddo Parish, who opposed the tax extension.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' May 28, 2021.</ref>

Mills is opposed for Senate reelection on October 14, 2023, by another Republican, Adam Bass, an insurance agent and a member of the Bossier Parish School Board who maintains that Mills is not as reliably conservative as is Bass.

With only 38 percent of the vote, Mills was handily defeated in his bid for Senate reelection in the primary held on October 14, 2023, by another Republican, [[Adam Bass]], an [[insurance]] agent and a member of the Bossier Parish School Board who maintained that Mills had not been a reliable conservative in his senatorial voting record.

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