Philip Granville Short | |
Office: | Louisiana State Senator from District 12 (St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes) |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 1999 |
Preceded: | B.B. "Sixty" Rayburn |
Succeeded: | Jerry Aroe Thomas |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1947 |
Residence: | Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, USA |
Spouse: | Suzanne Richards Short |
Party: | Republican |
Occupation: | Lieutenant colonel in United States Marine Corps |
Alma Mater: | C.E. Byrd High School Louisiana Tech University Webster University |
Footnotes: | Short unseated the legendary Sixty Rayburn in the Louisiana State Legislature but served only three years of his term. He resigned to take a position with the United States Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. |
Philip Granville Short, known as Phil Short (born January 31, 1947), is a retired military officer formerly from Covington, Louisiana, USA, who served in the Louisiana State Senate for District 12 (St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes) from 1996 to 1999.[1]