Richard Joseph Gallot, Jr., known as Rick Gallot (born April 1966), is the current president of

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and was a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate for District 29 In the

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held on October 22, 2011, Gallot received 12,992 votes (50.3 percent). Gallot, an African American born in Ruston, graduated from the historically black

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and the

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of Baton Rouge. He is an inductee of the Southern Law Hall of Fame. In 2012, he succeeded the term-limited white Democratic Senator Joe McPherson. Despite a generally

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voting record, in 2014 Gallot was one of only two Democrats in the State Senate to vote against reforming Louisiana's payday lending laws, having sided with the payday lending industry against a grassroots campaign that supported reform. Gallot did not seek reelection in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 24, 2015. In April 2016, Gallot began serving on the Board of Directors of Cleco Corporation, an electric utility company based in Pineville, Louisiana. Gallot was selected as president of

and to begin his tenure, donated $20,000 to the institution noting, "I wouldn't ask anyone to do what I wouldn't do myself." Gallot is a member of the Gamma Psi chapter of

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fraternity.

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Louisiana House of Representatives - Rick Gallot
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