Company: FGBI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001408534-25-000019
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Company: First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
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 " the ratification; or (iii) " ABSTAIN " from voting on the ratification. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares cast in person or by proxy at the Meeting and entitled to vote on this proposal is required to ratify this proposal.

All proxies that are properly executed and returned to First Guaranty will be voted at the Meeting, and any adjournment thereof, as specified by the shareholders in the proxies. A proxy may be revoked at any time before it is exercised by revoking it in writing, submitting a later dated proxy or voting in person at the Meeting. If a shareholder (other than a broker holding shares in street name) signs, dates and returns the proxy but does not indicate the manner in which he or she desires his or her shares to be voted, the shares will be voted "FOR" proposals 1, 2 and 3.

The Board of Directors of First Guaranty is not aware of any business to be acted upon at the Meeting other than the matters described in this proxy statement. If, however, other proper matters are brought before the Meeting, or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the persons appointed as proxy holders will have discretion to vote or abstain from voting thereon according to their best judgment. Should any nominee for director be unable or unwilling to serve, the proxy holders will have discretionary authority to vote for a substitute. The Board of Directors has no reason to believe that any nominee will be unable or unwilling to serve.

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#### PROPOSAL 1 - ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors of First Guaranty has fixed the number of directors of First Guaranty at seven. The persons named on the Proxy will vote only for the seven named nominees, except to the extent that authority to so vote is withheld as to one or more nominees. The persons elected as directors are to serve until the next Annual Shareholders Meeting or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

The following persons are the current members of the Board of Directors of First Guaranty and have been nominated by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors for election as directors of First Guaranty. Each nominee's name, age, present positions with First Guaranty, if any, principal occupation for the past five years, directorships in other public companies, the year each first became a director of First Guaranty and information regarding the person's experience, qualifications, attributes