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Walker Hines (born 1984) is a businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana, who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 95 in Orleans Parish, which was shifted to Livingston Parish beginning in 2012.Elected in 2007 at the age of twenty-three, Hines is a former Democrat who turned Republican in November 2010. After indicating that he would not seek reelection to the House, Hines announced his candidacy for Louisiana Secretary of State in the October 22 nonpartisan blanket primary against incumbent, and ultimate victor, Republican Tom Schedler of St. Tammany Parish. Hines withdrew from the election three days after Louisiana House Speaker Jim Tucker announced he was running for the seat. Thereafter, Hines said that he would seek no office in 2011 but would return to elective politics at some time in the future.The son of law firm Jones Walker Managing Partner Bill Hines and Mary Hines, Hines was born and reared in New Orleans. After attending Isidore Newman School, he graduated from Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie in Jefferson Parish. He received the Bachelor of General Studies degree in 2007 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He then completed the three week Executive Education program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a financial analyst at Capital Investment Management, Inc., in New Orleans. He is also vice president of the sales company, Direct Digital Marketing, LLC.In the 2007 primary, the Democrat Hines finished second in a field of eight candidates with only 1,314 votes (18.9 percent). The top votegetter was his fellow Democrat Una Anderson, who received 2,306 votes (33.2) percent. In the second balloting, with a low turnout of voters, Hines defeated Anderson, 2,638 (53.3 percent) to her 2,314 (46.7 percent).District 95 comprised the Uptown, Carrollton, and Hollygrove neighborhoods of New Orleans. but was shifted to Livingston Parish with the 2011 redistricting. While serving his term, Hines switched political parties to the Republican party. In doing so, he shifted the balance of power in the state's lower chamber from Democrats to Republicans. The seat remained Republican in the 2011 elections with the victory of Sherman Q. Mack to succeed Walker.Hines served on the House committees of (1) Civil Law and Procedure, (2) Health and Welfare, and (3) Judiciary. In 2010, Hines voted 100 percent with the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and 89 percent with the Louisiana Family Forum. In 2009, he scored 100 percent from the Louisiana National Right to Life Federation.Throughout the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Hines supported former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania because of the candidate's strong family values. Santorum won the Louisiana primary in March with 49 percent of the ballots.In his life after public service, Hines has taken up an avid hobby of food-blogging.