Alan Seabaugh

Alan Thomas Seabaugh is an American attorney from Shreveport, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from District 31.

He previously served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 5 in Caddo Parish.

In 2007, Seabaugh unsuccessfully challenged Republican State Senator Sherri Smith Buffington.

Seabaugh said that Cheek (now Buffington) "runs as a Republican and votes like a Democrat", and that he was disturbed that people from Caddo Parish had left Louisiana to seek economic opportunity elsewhere.

Cheek won with fifty-seven percent of the vote.

Seabaugh was a delegate and vice chairman of the Louisiana delegation to the 2008 Republican National Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He was also a member of the Electoral College that year.

He cast his two votes for the unsuccessful McCain/Palin ticket.

Alan Seabaugh has been a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2010.

He currently serves on the House Ways and Means, Insurance, and Labor Committees as well as the Joint Legislative Committee on the Capital Outlay.

He was a delegate to the 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference which convened in New Orleans.

He has been affiliated with the Christian nationalist legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, which is noted for its opposition to LGBTQ rights.

Seabaugh was elected to the legislature in 2010 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Republican Wayne Waddell.

In the 2010 election, Seabaugh defeated Republican and Red River Bank president Harold Turner 57-43 percent.

In the primary election held on October 22, 2011, Seabaugh defeated fellow Republican and former Shreveport City Councilwoman Cynthia Norton Robertson, receiving 79.3% of the vote.

In 2012, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Louisiana House Republican delegation.

Seabaugh is the managing partner of Seabaugh, Joffrion, Sepulvado & Victory law firm.

The practice includes insurance defense and claims, contracts, real estate law, property law, and all areas of civil and commercial litigation.

He also is a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions.

These bills were passed and signed into law as Acts 1 and 2 of 2012.

Seabaugh also was instrumental in blocking efforts to have Louisiana join the National Popular Vote compact.

In 2013, Seabaugh was strongly encouraged to enter the upcoming 2014 U.S. Senate Race against U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who unsuccessfully sought a fourth term in the office.

Another Republican conservative, Rob Maness, a United States Air Force colonel from St. Tammany Parish, also sought the Senate seat.

Seabaugh announced that he would not enter the race and strongly endorsed Bill Cassidy, who subsequently unseated Landrieu.

Seabaugh's first legislative session dealt with redistricting state legislative and congressional districts.

Seabaugh took a role in drafting the map of Louisiana's House of Representatives' districts by authoring an amendment which protected the integrity of the Southern Hills area of Shreveport.

Prior to the start of his first full term, Seabaugh was elected vice chairman of the Louisiana House Republican delegation.

He was also appointed as vice chairman of the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee, in which he led the fight for tort reform and against lawsuit abuse.

Early in the new term, Seabaugh co-authored and was one of the principal floor leaders responsible for the passage of several education reform measures.

Prior to the start of the 2013 session, Seabaugh was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, which is primarily responsible for drafting the state's budget.

During the 2013 session, Seabaugh authored legislation which would have eliminated personal and corporate state income taxes.

He also introduced legislation which would have eliminated all state taxes on retirement benefits.

Seabaugh's tax cut legislation failed to pass the Republican controlled House Ways and Means Committee.

Seabaugh authored legislation designed to lessen the influence of public employee unions.

His HB 552 sought to strike out language in current law allowing for automatic payroll deductions for "union dues, fees and assessments".

The bill failed in committee by one vote when two members switched their votes, allegedly because of lobbying efforts by organized labor, according to a right-wing Louisiana-based politics blog known as the Hayride.

In the October 24, 2015 primary election, Seabaugh won reelection to the House 71-29 percent, defeating Democrat Eileen Velez of Shreveport.

In 2015, Seabaugh was one of a small group of conservative Republicans who opposed tax increases which were passed with the support of Governor Jindal.

For this, Seabaugh was named one of seven MVPs by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

In 2015, Seabaugh was also named State Representative of the year by the Childcare Association of Louisiana.