district education state_senate succeeded children religion birth_place party preceded state_house birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
33rd 15th university of louisiana at monroe louisiana incumbent frank a. hoffmann lindsay michelle walsworth churches of christ west monroe , ouachita parish , louisiana , usa republican robert jocelyn barham charles anding louisiana 27 march 1956 2008 1996 married mike walsworth
 2008 michael arthur `` mike '' walsworth real estate developer
mike walsworth

michael arthur walsworth , known as mike walsworth -lrb- born march 27 , 1956 -rrb- , is an american real estate developer from west monroe , louisiana , who is a republican member from district 33 of the louisiana state senate .
he was first elected in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on october 20 , 2007 .
prior to then he represented district 15 -lrb- ouachita parish -rrb- in the louisiana house of representatives until he was unable to seek reelection because of term limits .
walsworth 's senate district includes ouachita , claiborne , morehouse , union , and west carroll parishes .
he defeated the democratic state representative charles mcdonald of fairbanks community in northern ouachita parish to succeed the term-limited republican senator robert j. barham of oak ridge in morehouse parish .
walsworth polled 17,292 -lrb- 51.7 percent -rrb- to mcdonald 's 16,058 -lrb- 48.3 percent -rrb- .
mcdonald 's house seat , to which he was term-limited , was narrowly won in the november 17 , 2007 , state election by a republican , sam little , retired farmer from bastrop , seat of morehouse parish .
in a 2013 committee meeting , a question which walsworth raised , about the theory of evolution as it relates to e. coli bacteria , caused his critics to claim that he lacks basic scientific knowledge .
from 1984 to 1996 , walsworth was a member of the louisiana republican state central committee .
on february 9 , 2008 , he sought to return to the committee to represent his former state representative district 15 berth .
but he withdrew his candidacy two days before the closed primary election , and the position went by default to m. randall `` randy '' donald .
walsworth was first elected to the state house in the 1995 primary when he unseated two-term democrat charles anding of west monroe and assumed the seat in 1996 .
