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|term_end2=2012

|term_end2=2012

|preceded2=B. G. Dyess

|preceded2=B. G. Dyess

|succeeded2=Rick Gallot

|succeeded2=[[Rick Gallot]]

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]

|birth_date=December 18, 1950

|birth_date=December 18, 1950

McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995. Voters chose the [[conservative]] Democrat [[B. G. Dyess]], an ordained [[Southern Baptist]] minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964 to 1988. When Dyess did not seek a second term in 1999, McPherson returned to claim the seat once again, having defeated the Republican state Representative [[Randy Wiggins]] of Pineville. <ref>Primary election returns, October 23, 1999, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref>

McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995. Voters chose the [[conservative]] Democrat [[B. G. Dyess]], an ordained [[Southern Baptist]] minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964 to 1988. When Dyess did not seek a second term in 1999, McPherson returned to claim the seat once again, having defeated the Republican state Representative [[Randy Wiggins]] of Pineville. <ref>Primary election returns, October 23, 1999, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref>

McPherson was reelected in 2003 and 2007 by wide margins in each election over his fellow Democrat Jerry M. Guillory, who had also run in the 1999 McPherson-Wiggins race.<ref>Primary election returns, October 20, 2007, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref> McPherson was ineligible to seek a fourth consecutive Senate term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. In all, he served a total of six full terms in the Senate and was succeeded by the [[African-American]] outgoing state Representative Rick Gallot of Lincoln Parish. who polled just over 50 percent of the vote in the primary. After the 2010 census, District 29 was reconfigured to include the black communities in seven parishes: Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.<ref>Primary election returns, October 22, 2011, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref>

McPherson was reelected in 2003 and 2007 by wide margins in each election over his fellow Democrat Jerry M. Guillory, who had also run in the 1999 McPherson-Wiggins race.<ref>Primary election returns, October 20, 2007, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref> McPherson was ineligible to seek a fourth consecutive Senate term in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 22, 2011. In all, he served a total of six full terms in the Senate and was succeeded by the [[African-American]] outgoing state Representative [[Rick Gallot]] of Lincoln Parish. who polled just over 50 percent of the vote in the primary. After the 2010 census, District 29 was reconfigured to include the black communities in seven parishes: Bienville, Grant, Jackson, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.<ref>Primary election returns, October 22, 2011, Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 24, 2011</ref>

==Other campaigns==

==Other campaigns==