Billy Guin
| Billy James Guin, Sr. | |
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| Public Utilities Commissioner in Shreveport, Louisiana | |
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In office June 1977 – November 1978 |
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| Preceded by | William A. "Bill" Collins |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished under new city charter |
| Member of the Caddo Parish School Board | |
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In office 1964–1970 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 14, 1927 El Paso, Texas, USA |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican (1961) |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Jane Beale Guin (married 1950) |
| Children |
Billy Guin, Jr. |
| Residence | Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Virginia Military Institute |
| Occupation | Engineer; businessman |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army Reserve |
| Battles/wars |
Post-World War II |
Billy Guin, Jr.
Nancy Guin Austin
Alice Guin Lind
Elizabeth Anne Leonard
Post-World War II
Billy James Guin, Sr. (born November 14, 1927), is a retired businessman and engineer from Shreveport, Louisiana, who was from 1977 to 1978 his city's last public utilities commissioner under the former commission system of municipal government. Since 1961, Guin has been involved in the development of the Louisiana Republican Party to majority status in his state. In 1964, he and two others became the first members of their party ever elected to the Caddo Parish School Board.
Guin was born in El Paso, Texas, to James Frank Guin (1882-1930) and the former Bessie Aline Reeves (1898-1991), both originally from Bienville Parish in northwestern Louisiana. The Guins had moved to El Paso in the hope that the dry climate would alleviate the impact of the tuberculosis which James had contracted during World War I while serving in the United States Army. After his father's death, Mrs. Guin relocated with their three-year-old son to Ruston, Louisiana, where they lived with her mother. Bessie Guin subsequently married James E. Fitch, Sr., an Ohio native, and the couple resided in Shreveport. In addition to Billy, there was a second son, James Fitch, Jr. (born c. 1937).
Guin graduated in 1944 from C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport and then entered Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Guin left VMI for duty in the United States Marine Corps in extended World War II service. He then returned to VMI, from which he received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. There he met his wife, the former Nancy Jane Beale (born March 1927), a native of Franklin near Norfolk, Virginia. Guin also served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He remained thereafter in the United States Army Reserve for three decades. On his return to Shreveport, he became affiliated with E. M. Freeman and Associates and United Gas before he formed the former B. J. Guin Engineering Company.
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