John William Loudon (born August 14, 1967) is a former
Republican
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member of the
Missouri Senate
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for the 7th District from 2000 until 2008 and a member of the
Missouri House of Representatives
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from 1995 through 2000. He is the chairman of Florida Citizen Voters and Citizen Voters Inc, a member of Mar-a-Lago, and a former advisor to America First Policies.
Early life
Loudon was born and raised in
St. Louis
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, one of four children of Robert and Janice Loudon. He graduated from
Westminster College in
Fulton
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,
Missouri
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, with a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in 1989.
Career
Political career
Loudon served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1994 through 1998. He was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 2000, and again in 2004. While in the Senate, Loudon founded and chaired the Senate’s Small Business, Insurance, and Industrial Relations Committee, was vice-chair of the Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee, and a member of the committees on education, gubernatorial appointments, and judiciary and civil and criminal Jurisprudence.
Towards the end of his career as senator, Loudon introduced an amendment to a health insurance bill that legalized the practice of
midwifery
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in Missouri. (Missouri had previously been one of a minority of states that prohibited anyone other than
registered nurse
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s from serving as a midwife.)
The Missouri State Medical Association, which represents physicians in the state, sued to block the controversial provision, arguing that it violated the state's
single-subject rule
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for legislation.
In 2008, the
Missouri Supreme Court
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voted, 5–2, to uphold the legislation, finding that the Missouri State Medical Association lacked
standing to sue.
Loudon is the chair of both Florida Citizen Voters and Citizen Voters Inc. Both organizations are working in Florida and nationally to change state constitutions to explicitly state that only citizens may vote in elections. As of July 2019, the Florida organization had raised $4.7 million and collected more than 1.5 million signatures, more than twice what was needed to place the measure on the 2020 ballot in Florida.
In May 2018, it was reported that Loudon had used inflammatory and derogatory language against women, Muslims and Democrats. He promoted
conspiracy theories about President Obama's birth and
religion
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, suggesting that Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim.
Private sector
Missouri law
limits
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state senators to eight years, so Loudon retired in 2008.
He worked for a time for an association of nonunion contractors in California.
Loudon is a former policy advisor for
America First Policies
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, a pro-Trump organization
and is a member of Mar-a-Lago.
His wife, Gina Loudon, is a member of the Trump campaign's media advisory board and is a published author.
Personal life
Loudon married
Gina (Gentry) Loudon in 1990. They have five children.
Loudon appeared on ABC’s Wife Swap in 2013.
References
External links
Missouri Senate - John William LoudonProject Vote Smart - John William Loudon (MO)profile
*''Follow the Money'' - John William Loudon
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Senator campaign contributions
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Auditor campaign contributions
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1967 births
Living people
Politicians from St. Louis
People from San Diego
American Presbyterians
Republican Party Missouri state senators
Republican Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives
Westminster College (Missouri) alumni
20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
California Republicans