Timothy Drost Stine, known as Tim Stine, is a businessman from his native Sulphur, Louisiana, who served from 1989 to 1996 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 33 in Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of his state.
Career
Stine is the youngest of seven children of a Sulphur couple, Jackson West. Stine, who established Stine Lumber Company, and the former Doris Rita "DeeDee" Drost (1921-2010). She is interred at Dutch Cove Cemetery in Calcasieu Parish. He did not seek a third term in the House in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 21, 1995.
Fellow Democrat, later Republican convert, Ronnie Johns, was handily elected to succeed Stine.
The office of Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler lists Stine in August 2015 as a registered Democratic voter.
Membership
His mother was a member of the first class of then McNeese Junior College and was a cheerleader, secretary of the first graduating class, and the first class favorite. Stine is a Roman Catholic, a member of Rotary International, and a long-term advocate for the cause of the disabled. Prior to his legislative years, Stine was from 1986 to 1988 a member of the Sulphur City Council.
