Ryan Eugene Gatti was born on June 1974 and is an attorney in his native Bossier City, Louisiana, who was a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from 2016 until 2020 for District 36.
21 Facts About Ryan Gatti
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Ryan Gatti has held over 50 town hall meetings from Plain Dealing and Castor to Springhill and Haughton.
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Ryan Gatti tells the story of the Mama Pelican on the Louisiana Flag.
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In 2003, Gatti ran unsuccessfully for the District 8 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives against fellow Republican Jane H Smith, a former school superintendent for Bossier Parish.
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Ryan Gatti received 3,456 votes to Smith's 6,999.
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Twelve years later, Ryan Gatti narrowly defeated fellow Republican Henry Burns, a businessman and retired military officer originally from Webster Parish, who left the state House after two terms to seek the Senate seat vacated by the term-limited Republican Robert Adley.
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Ryan Gatti polled 14,023 votes ; Burns amassed 13,698.
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Ryan Gatti ran for state senator as an intra-party critic of the term-limited Bobby Jindal, who as the departing governor launched a brief unsuccessful bid in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Ryan Gatti is a close friend and supporter of Jindal's gubernatorial successor, Democrat John Bel Edwards of Tangipahoa Parish, whom Ryan Gatti met while attending LSU Law School.
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Ryan Gatti was a large donor to Edwards as well despite his position as the vice president of the Bossier Parish Republican Party.
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Ryan Gatti pledged to support higher education, to return local control to school boards, to eliminate the Common Core State Standards Initiative, to address state budgetary shortfalls, and to support policies to enhance Louisiana's energy industries.
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Ryan Gatti voted against renewal of the sales tax in 2018 keeping a promise to his constituents.
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In 1992, Ryan Gatti graduated co-valedictorian of Airline High School in Bossier City.
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Ryan Gatti then procured his undergraduate education in three years from Louisiana State University in the capital city of Baton Rouge, at which he was president of the fraternity, Kappa Sigma.
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Ryan Gatti attended the Honors College and was awarded Sophomore's Honors Distinction.
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Ryan Gatti was accepted to LSU Law Center serving as student body president and as student member to the Louisiana Board of Regents.
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Ryan Gatti owns and operates a farm near Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish, at which he grows oak trees.
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Ryan Gatti is married to the former Susan Lockhart, formerly an assistant professor at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport and previously the assistant headmaster at Providence Classical Academy in Bossier City.
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Susan Ryan Gatti received her PhD in psychology from LSU Baton Rouge and has published research in that area.
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At the time of his legislative election, Ryan Gatti was on a Christian mission trip to Haiti.
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Ryan Gatti has made such trips to El Salvador and Mexico as well.