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Gregory Tarver
Gregory Williams Tarver, Sr., known as Greg Tarver (born March 30, 1946), 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2012 )〕
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, Lydia Jackson.
==Background==
Tarver's family has operated the J. S. Williams Funeral Home and insurance companies in Shreveport〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senator Gregory W. "Greg" Tarver, Sr." )〕 for more than a century. Tarver graduated from Alton Senior High School in Alton in Madison County, Illinois, home of the 19th century abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy. He also attended a business college and Grambling State University in Grambling west of Ruston in Lincoln Parish. He served in the military from 1967 to 1969. From 1973 to 1975, he was one of the directors of what became the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, formerly known as Confederate Memorial Medical Center or "Charity Hospital".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senate District 39 )〕 From 1975 to 1978, he held the District 5 seat on the former Caddo Parish Police Jury, subsequently the Caddo Parish Commission, the parish governing board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History: Afro-Americans and Caddo Parish Police Jurors/Caddo Pa rish Commissioners )〕 Tarver was named in 1978 among the "Outstanding Young Men of America". In 1983, he was designated "Black Leader of the Year" in Shreveport. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Baptist denomination.〔
Tarver is married to Velma J. Kirksey-Tarver, a Certified Professional Life Coach, the owner of Quality Office Supply, and the chairwoman of VRC Educational Scholarship Foundation. Mrs. Tarver is also the founder of the Institute for Global Outreach, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase awareness of global suffering and to provide humanitarian services to impoverished children and families in Ethiopia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coach Velma K. Tarver, July 16, 2010 )〕
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