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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Charles Roland Herring
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 26 (Rapides Parish)
|term_start=1988
|term_end=1992
|preceded=[[Jock Scott]]
|succeeded=Israel "Bo" Curtis
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later [[Republican Party|Republican]]
|birth_date=January 14, 1945|14}}
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
|death_date=
|death_place=
|death_cause=
|resting_place=
|alma_mater=Palmer College of Chiropractic]]
|occupation=[[Chiropractor]]
|residence=(1) [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Rapides Parish<br>
(2) Metairie, Jefferson Parish<br>
(3) Amite, Tangipahoa Parish<br>
(4) [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana<br>
(5) Livingston Parish, Louisiana
|spouse=
|children=
|parents=
|religion =
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|battles=
|footnote=
}}
'''Charles Roland Herring''' (born January 14, 1945) is a [[chiropractor]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who served from 1988 to 1992 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in state representative for District 26 in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish, Louisiana]]. His tenure corresponded with the administration of [[Governor]] [[Buddy Roemer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Rapides Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Herring graduated in 1968 from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, [[Iowa]], the first institution of this kind in the world. From February 1969 until October 1970, he served in the [[United States Navy]]. Thereafter, he worked as a chiropractor in Alexandria (1970-1992), in Metairie in Jefferson Parish (1992-1996), in Amite in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern Louisiana (1996-1998), and since 1998 in the capital city of Baton Rouge. Beginning in April 2004, he became affiliated with Louisiana Spine and Sports Medicine in Baton Rouge.<ref name=crherring>{{cite web|url= http://charlesrherring.com/about_charles_herring.html#C|title=About Dr. Charles Herring|publisher=charlesrherring.com|accessdate=December 27, 2014}}</ref>
Long active in his profession, Herring has taught on the graduate faculties of four chiropractic colleges: his alma mater, Palmer, Parker University in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, and the Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, outside [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=crherring/>
Herring has written scholarly articles carried in such publications as ''American Chiropractors,'' ''Dynamic Chiropractic,'' ''The Chiropractor Today,'' and ''Chiropractic Technique.''<ref name=crherring/>
==Political life==
From 1976 to 1987, Herring was a member of the Louisiana Statewide Health Coordinating Council.<ref name=crherring/> In 1987 he won a runoff election for the House seat vacated by [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Jock Scott]], who ran unsuccessfully for state senator against the Democrat [[Joe McPherson]]. Herring defeated fellow Democrat Eugene Paul "Gene" Cicardo, Sr. (1933-1996), one of the first white graduates of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulc.edu/Departments/Communications/reflections-docs/Web_SULC_Refl_Sum13.pdf|title=Cicardo, Jr., Speaks of Strong Family Legacy at SULC|publisher=''SULC Reflections: The Magazine of Southern University Law Center''|date=2012|page=10|accessdate=December 27, 2014}}</ref> and a former [[city attorney]] chosen by [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], the last of the municipal finance and utilities commissioners in Alexandria. In a low-turnout contest, Herring polled 4,034 votes (52.7 percent) to Cicardo's 3,627 (47.3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref> Cicardo had led the five-candidate primary fiel] with 26.7 percent of the votes cast, compared to Herring's 22.9 percent.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Representative Herring served on the House committees of Civil Law and Procedure and Health and Welfare.<ref name=crherring/> Herring did not seek a second term in the House in the 1991 nonpartisan blanket primary, and his seat was won by the [[African-American]] school board member, Israel "Bo" Curtis of Alexandria.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 1991.</ref> Herring instead lost a bid in 1991 for the District 29 seat in the state Senate; he finished in third place in the five-candidate primary election with 7,114 votes (19.1 percent). Another losing primary candidate was the [[singer]] [[Jay Chevalier]]. Victory instead went to another Democrat, the incumbent state Senator Joe McPherson, who in the runoff election defeated the Republican [[Robert W. Bates]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref>
More than a decade after his legislative tenure, Governor [[Kathleen Blanco]] appointed Herring to head a joint legislative task force to formulate plans to handle problems in the Louisiana Group Benefits Program for eighty thousand state employees.<ref name=crherring/>
In December 2014, Herring was listed as a Republican voter and a resident of Ward 5 in Livingston Parish outside Baton Rouge by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herring, Charles R.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]
|name=Charles Roland Herring
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br>for District 26 (Rapides Parish)
|term_start=1988
|term_end=1992
|preceded=[[Jock Scott]]
|succeeded=Israel "Bo" Curtis
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]] / later [[Republican Party|Republican]]
|birth_date=January 14, 1945|14}}
|birth_place=Place of birth missing
|death_date=
|death_place=
|death_cause=
|resting_place=
|alma_mater=Palmer College of Chiropractic]]
|occupation=[[Chiropractor]]
|residence=(1) [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Rapides Parish<br>
(2) Metairie, Jefferson Parish<br>
(3) Amite, Tangipahoa Parish<br>
(4) [[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana<br>
(5) Livingston Parish, Louisiana
|spouse=
|children=
|parents=
|religion =
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|battles=
|footnote=
}}
'''Charles Roland Herring''' (born January 14, 1945) is a [[chiropractor]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who served from 1988 to 1992 as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in state representative for District 26 in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] in Rapides Parish, Louisiana]]. His tenure corresponded with the administration of [[Governor]] [[Buddy Roemer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024: Rapides Parish|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 30, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Herring graduated in 1968 from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, [[Iowa]], the first institution of this kind in the world. From February 1969 until October 1970, he served in the [[United States Navy]]. Thereafter, he worked as a chiropractor in Alexandria (1970-1992), in Metairie in Jefferson Parish (1992-1996), in Amite in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern Louisiana (1996-1998), and since 1998 in the capital city of Baton Rouge. Beginning in April 2004, he became affiliated with Louisiana Spine and Sports Medicine in Baton Rouge.<ref name=crherring>{{cite web|url= http://charlesrherring.com/about_charles_herring.html#C|title=About Dr. Charles Herring|publisher=charlesrherring.com|accessdate=December 27, 2014}}</ref>
Long active in his profession, Herring has taught on the graduate faculties of four chiropractic colleges: his alma mater, Palmer, Parker University in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, and the Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, outside [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]].<ref name=crherring/>
Herring has written scholarly articles carried in such publications as ''American Chiropractors,'' ''Dynamic Chiropractic,'' ''The Chiropractor Today,'' and ''Chiropractic Technique.''<ref name=crherring/>
==Political life==
From 1976 to 1987, Herring was a member of the Louisiana Statewide Health Coordinating Council.<ref name=crherring/> In 1987 he won a runoff election for the House seat vacated by [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Jock Scott]], who ran unsuccessfully for state senator against the Democrat [[Joe McPherson]]. Herring defeated fellow Democrat Eugene Paul "Gene" Cicardo, Sr. (1933-1996), one of the first white graduates of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulc.edu/Departments/Communications/reflections-docs/Web_SULC_Refl_Sum13.pdf|title=Cicardo, Jr., Speaks of Strong Family Legacy at SULC|publisher=''SULC Reflections: The Magazine of Southern University Law Center''|date=2012|page=10|accessdate=December 27, 2014}}</ref> and a former [[city attorney]] chosen by [[Arnold Jack Rosenthal]], the last of the municipal finance and utilities commissioners in Alexandria. In a low-turnout contest, Herring polled 4,034 votes (52.7 percent) to Cicardo's 3,627 (47.3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref> Cicardo had led the five-candidate primary fiel] with 26.7 percent of the votes cast, compared to Herring's 22.9 percent.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Representative Herring served on the House committees of Civil Law and Procedure and Health and Welfare.<ref name=crherring/> Herring did not seek a second term in the House in the 1991 nonpartisan blanket primary, and his seat was won by the [[African-American]] school board member, Israel "Bo" Curtis of Alexandria.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 1991.</ref> Herring instead lost a bid in 1991 for the District 29 seat in the state Senate; he finished in third place in the five-candidate primary election with 7,114 votes (19.1 percent). Another losing primary candidate was the [[singer]] [[Jay Chevalier]]. Victory instead went to another Democrat, the incumbent state Senator Joe McPherson, who in the runoff election defeated the Republican [[Robert W. Bates]].<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref>
More than a decade after his legislative tenure, Governor [[Kathleen Blanco]] appointed Herring to head a joint legislative task force to formulate plans to handle problems in the Louisiana Group Benefits Program for eighty thousand state employees.<ref name=crherring/>
In December 2014, Herring was listed as a Republican voter and a resident of Ward 5 in Livingston Parish outside Baton Rouge by the office of then Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herring, Charles R.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Democrats]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Navy]]