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Mar 27, 1956 West Monroe, Louisiana, United States 68 years old
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About Mike Walsworth
- Michael Arthur Walsworth, known as Mike Walsworth (born March 27, 1956), is an American real estate developer from West Monroe, Louisiana, who is a Republican member for District 33 of the Louisiana State Senate, first elected in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.
- He previously represented District 15 (Ouachita Parish) in the Louisiana House of Representatives until term-limited. 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 (51.7 percent) to McDonald's 16,058 (48.3 percent).
- 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. 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.
