Barry Milligan

Barry Scott Milligan
Louisiana State Senator for District 38 (Caddo and DeSoto parishes)​
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 13, 2020
Preceded by	John Milkovich​
Born	​August 12, 1970 Rayne, Acadia Parish, Louisiana Reared in Shreveport, Louisiana
Political party	Republican​
Spouse(s)	Kristin Crew Milligan (married 1994)
Children	Three daughters: Madison M. Oliver Chandler Milligan Katherine Milligan (deceased)
Occupation	Businessman
Religion	Independent Baptist​

Barry Scott Milligan (born August 12, 1970) is the District 38 state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes in northwestern Louisiana. In the nonpartisan blanket primary on October 12, 2019, with 51 percent of the total votes cast, he defeated two Democrats, including the one-term incumbent John Milkovich, who finished second with 26 percent of the vote, barely half of Milligan's share of the vote.^[1][2]

Milligan was born in Rayne in Acadia Parish, where he spent time as boy with a grandmother who founded the Louisiana Frog Festival. He moved with his family to Shreveport in 1982 and graduated in 1988 from Captain Shreve High School and then obtained a bachelor's degree in business management from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish. He then received a Master of Business Administration from Centenary College in Shreveport. He is a banker and businessman. Milligan and his wife, the former Kristin Crew, an educator whom he married in 1994, have two living daughters, Madison Oliver and Chandler Milligan. A third daughter, Katherine, is deceased. They are affiliated with Southwood Baptist Church, an Independent congregation in Shreveport.^[3]

Milligan campaigned as a strong conservative, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and "not a career politician." He also called for the state to gain control over its spending of limited taxpayer resources.^[3] In May 2021, Milligan joined four other North Louisiana state senators previously considered conservatives, Barrow Peacock, Mike Reese, Jay Morris, Robert Mills, and Stewart Cathey, in voting to extend a $400 million temporary state sales tax even though the state is awaiting a windfall in federal coronavirus stimulus funding. Milligan's vote was even in contrast to the Democratic Senator Greg Tarver, who opposed the tax extension.^[4]

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