Phil Short

{{Short description|American politician (born 1947)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= Philip Granville Short

|image= Revised Phil Short of LA IMG_20150727_0012.jpg

|imagesize = 175px |

|caption=Phil Short as a student at Louisiana Tech University (1969)

|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= {{birth date and age |1947|1|31}}

|birth_place=

|death_date=

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|residence=Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, USA

|spouse= Suzanne Richards Short

|children=

|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.

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana Senate: 1880 - Present|first=Arthur|last=McEnany|work=Louisiana State Senate|date=January 2008|access-date=August 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225225646/http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/Documents/SenateMembership1880ForwardRevisedMar2011.pdf|archive-date=December 25, 2015|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}

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