Gregory Tarver
Politician
1946 –
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Who is Gregory Tarver?
Gregory Williams Tarver, Sr., known as Greg Tarver, is an African American businessman and Democratic politician in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served on the Shreveport City Council from 1978 to 1984 and as a Louisiana state senator from the predominantly black District 39 in Caddo Parish from 1984 to 2004.
After an eight-year hiatus, Tarver returns to the Senate on January 9, 2012. In the general election held on November 19, 2011, he unseated his successor in the post, Senator Lydia P. Jackson, also of Shreveport, 9,168 votes to 8,295.
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- Born
- Mar 30, 1946
- Religion
- Baptists
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Profession
- Education
- Grambling State University
- Lived in
- Shreveport
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on July 23, 2013
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