Election History
Adley's public career began in 1977, when he won a special election for an at-large unexpired term on the City Council of Bossier City. He was elected to the Louisiana House from District 8 (Bossier Parish) in 1979 and served four terms until he ran for governor in 1995. He succeeded Walter O. Bigby of Bossier City, who died of cancer in the last year of a third term in the House. Bigby was a son-in-law of former State Senator and banker V.V. Whittington of Benton. In the gubernatorial race, Adley polled only 27,534 votes (2 percent).
In the 1987 legislative primary, Adley, with 5,835 ballots (50 percent) polled 36 more votes than his two rivals combined: Democrat Sandra M. Loridans, 2,334 votes (20 percent) and former Republican turned independent Freddy M. Shewmake (born 1940), 3,465 ballots (30 percent). Adley was unopposed in the 1991 primary.
Adley was initially elected to the state Senate on February 15, 2003 to fill the remaining months of the term vacated by Foster L. Campbell, Jr., also of Bossier Parish, who was elected to the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He defeated Jerry Lott, another Democrat, 8,172 (68 percent) to 3,903 (32 percent). At the time Red River Parish was not in the district. Adley was unopposed for a full term in the regular 2003 primary. Foster Campbell, who had succeeded conservative state Senator Harold Montgomery of Doyline in Webster Parish in 1976, ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 2007 primary won by Jindal. The Adley seat was held from 1956 to 1960 by Herman "Wimpy" Jones, a businessman who operated the Southern Kitchen restaurant in Bossier City.
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