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Virginia Ruth Kilpatrick Shehee (July 12, 1923 – July 6, 2015) was a businesswoman, civic leader, and patron of the arts in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served from 1976 to 1980 as the state senator for District 38 in Caddo and DeSoto parishes. Shehee won her seat in the 1975 general election by twenty-three votes over incumbent fellow Democrat, the late Cecil K. Carter, Jr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2008 )〕 She was defeated in 1979 by another Democrat, Richard G. Neeson, who retained the seat until 1992. Sheehee was the first woman elected to the Louisiana Senate without succeeding a husband. In May 1936, Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes of Greensburg in St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana, was appointed to the state Senate upon the death of her husband, Thomas Myers Holland. Thereafter, Doris Holland then won a special election for the seat.〔〔In 1940, Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes switched to the Louisiana House of Representatives and remained in that position in St. Helena Parish until 1948.〕 In 2015, Shehee was listed prior to her death by the Louisiana secretary of state's office in Baton Rouge as a registered Republican voter.〔The Louisiana Secretary of State website at https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=598521 carries listings only of living voters.〕
==Business success== Shehee was born in Houston, a descendant of the Old Three Hundred families who settled Texas in 1824 with Stephen F. Austin, she moved to Shreveport during the Great Depression with her parents, the former Nellie Mae Peters (1901-1971) and Lonnie Benjamin Kilpatrick (1892-1956). Upon her mother's death in an airplane crash, Shehee became president and CEO of Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company and the family-owned Rose-Neath Funeral Homes, founded in 1936 by her father, a personal friend of Governor Jimmie Davis, who often visited in the Kirkpatrick home and took a special interest in Virginia. In later years, Shehee was heavily involved in the Davis birthday celebrations, which culminated with the last one in 2000, when the former two-term governor turned 101.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=James Ronald Skains, Political Hall of Fame induction in Winnfield will honor eight, January 2004 )〕 As a state senator, Davis lobbied Shehee to make his trademark "You Are My Sunshine" the official state song.〔 Under Shehee's leadership, Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company increased in size to ten offices in Louisiana and Texas. Rose-Neath has twelve funeral homes and three Louisiana cemeteries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Ruth Kilpatrick Shehee )〕 Shehee was for a time a partner with the pediatricians, Dr. Thomas E. Strain, Sr., and his son, Jimmy Strain, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972, in the development of the Fountain Towers on Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Thomas Everett Strain, Sr. )〕 Shehee was the chair emeritus of the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, which was renamed in her honor in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana )〕 She was a member of the American Council of Life Insurance and chair of the Louisiana Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Kilpatrick Shehee )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virginia Shehee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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