Max Tatum Malone | |
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Louisiana State Senator from District 37 (Caddo and Bossier parishes) | |
In office 1996–2008 |
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Preceded by | Greg Barro |
Succeeded by | B.L. "Buddy" Shaw |
Personal details | |
Born |
Louisiana |
March 3, 1953
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Anderson Malone |
Children | Mark, Mitch, and Marianne |
Alma mater | Centenary College of Louisiana |
Occupation | Oil and gas businessman |
Religion | Methodist |
Max Tatum Malone (born March 3, 1953) is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a former Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, in which he served from 1996 until January 14, 2008. Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana, Malone could not seek a fourth term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City, who was term-limited himself as a state House member, and Montgomery's former House colleague, B.L. "Buddy" Shaw, a retired Shreveport educator and school board member. Shaw defeated Montgomery, 57-43 percent.
Malone's Senate record reflects a conservative bent: 90 to 100 percent support from the pro-business interest group, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, 0 percent from Planned Parenthood of America, 100 percent from the Louisiana Family Forum, 77 percent from the Christian Coalition, and 22 percent from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network. Malone, however, has accumulated a 71 percent rating from the AFL-CIO and 60 percent from the Louisiana Association of Educators, the state's largest teachers' organization.