Mike Smith

Who is Mike Smith?

Kenneth Michael Smith, Sr., known as Mike Smith, is a businessman in Winnfield, Louisiana, who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1996 to 2008.

Smith was term-limited in District 31, which encompasses all or parts of De Soto, Grant, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, and Winn parishes. In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007, Smith was succeeded by his Republicancousin, Gerald Long, a Winnfield native residing in Natchitoches. Long defeated outgoing State Representative Taylor Townsend, an attorney also from Natchitoches. Townsend in 1999, had defeated Long’s brother, Jimmy D. Long of Natchitoches, for the state House seat.

Smith was born in Winnfield to P.K. Smith and the former Marjorie McLamore. He graduated in 1966 from Winnfield Senior High School, where he was active in the Future Farmers of America. One of his classmates was James R. "Jim" Fannin, a state representative since 2003 from Jonesboro in Jackson Parish, whose District 13 also includes the northern portion of Winn Parish. Another was Danny Keys, director of the Louisiana Technical College - Huey P. Long Campus in Long's native Winnfield.