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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Richard Lee Stalder
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=Secretary of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Public Safety & Corrections
| term_start=1992
| term_end=2008
| preceded=
| succeeded=James Myles "Jimmy" LeBlanc
| birth_date=March 23, 1951
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
|residence=Zachary, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<ref name=voterportal/>
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]
| occupation=Penologist
| spouse =Pamela Davis Stalder
| children=Jonathan Eli Stalder<br>
Christopher Davis Stalder<r>
'''Parents''':<br>
Edgar A. and Mildred Strahm Stalder}}
'''Richard Lee Stalder''' (born March 23, 1951)<ref name=voterportal>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20131019062918/http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx,|title=Richard Stalder (March 1951), Louisiana Voter Portal}}</ref> is the former secretary of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Public Safety & Corrections] a position to which he was appointed in 1992 by then [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]]. The position is now held by Stalder's former colleague.
==Background==
Stalder is one of four children of Edgar Alan Stalder (1923-2015), who died on his 92nd birthday on December 13, 2015, and the former Mildred A. Strahm (1923-1995) of Sabetha, [[Kansas]]. Edgar Stalder was reared on a farm along the [[Kansas]]-[[Nebraska]] border. After distinguished service under [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], with the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II], he received the [[Silver Star]], was recognized by the [[historian]] Stephen Edward Ambrose(1936-2002) with the placing of Stalder's war memoir at both the Eisenhower Center of the University of New Orleans and in the National World War II Museum in [[Washington, D.C.]], he worked for the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] in [[New Orleans]] and later Washington, D.C. Richard Stalder has three siblings, Robert Stalder and his wife, Pattie, of Westmoreland, Kansas; Ronald Stalder of [[Austin]] [[Texas]], and Susan Brinker and her husband, Brian, of Stillwater, [[Oklahoma]].<ref name=fathersobit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=edgar-a-stalder&pid=176899610&fhid=17442#sthash.WlV4FiKj.dpuf|title=Edgar A. Stalder|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=November 28, 2022}}</ref>
==Career==
In 1971, Richard Stalder began working as a prison officer to earn money while attending [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. He worked his way to the positions of federal programs administrator, corrections budget officer, and the superintendent of Louisiana Training Institute in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], deputy warden of Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana, and warden of David Wade Correctional Center in Homer in Claiborne Parish,<ref>"Richard L. Stalder: Defining a Vision for Louisiana,'' highbeam.com, June 1, 2003, accessed December 16, 2013.</ref> named for the late American general [[David Wade]]. From 1998 to 2000, Stalder was the president of the American Correctional Association.<ref name=lapol/>
Stalder was the choice of a new group founded in 1991 and known as Louisiana Wardens and Superintendent (LAWS) to head the corrections agency. The driving force behind LAWS was Burl Cain, a long-term warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish, under whom Stalder had previously worked as deputy warden at the Dixon Correctional Institute. Stalder was at first reluctant to take on the statewide position because he preferred to remain warden at David Wade, the only prison in Louisiana at the time to have been accredited by the American Correctional Association. Stalder's colleagues persuaded him to meet with Edwards, then a candidate for a fourth nonconsecutive term as governor, to discuss the secretary's position. After some delay, Edwards appointed Stalder; the position had been traditionally given to political supporters of the governor.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oYGF3ZDsmEYC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Richard+Stalder&source=bl&ots=pHkepxj0Wa&sig=2SJfQr4Lxq_jYBkCDx4m_PQxJEM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8DetUvGdGYnR2AWC4oHgCQ&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Stalder&f=false|title=Dennis Shere, Cain's Redemption: A Story of Hope and Transformation in America's Bloodiest Prison, pp. 44-45|publisher=Northfield Publishing Company, 2005; ISBN 978-1-881273-24-0|accessdate=December 16, 2013}}</ref>
Stalder is a registered [[Republican Party|Republican]] voter in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish]<ref name=voterportal/> In 2003, he was inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref name=lapol>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=53|title=Richard Stalder|publisher=lapoliticalmuseum.com|accessdate=December 15, 2013}}</ref> Burl Cain was inducted into the Hall of Fame the previous year in 2002. with his wife, the former Pamela Davis<ref name=fathersobit/> (also born 1951), the couple has two sons, Jonathan Eli Stalder (born 1978) and Christopher Davis Stalder (born 1981).<ref>Richard Stalder (Prison Warden) Wiki, Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth (profilesinfo.com), accessed November 28, 2022.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stalder, Richard}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Government Officials]]
[[Category:Inductees of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]]
| name=Richard Lee Stalder
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=Secretary of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Public Safety & Corrections
| term_start=1992
| term_end=2008
| preceded=
| succeeded=James Myles "Jimmy" LeBlanc
| birth_date=March 23, 1951
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
|residence=Zachary, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]<ref name=voterportal/>
| alma_mater=[[Louisiana State University]]
| occupation=Penologist
| spouse =Pamela Davis Stalder
| children=Jonathan Eli Stalder<br>
Christopher Davis Stalder<r>
'''Parents''':<br>
Edgar A. and Mildred Strahm Stalder}}
'''Richard Lee Stalder''' (born March 23, 1951)<ref name=voterportal>{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20131019062918/http://voterportal.sos.la.gov/home.aspx,|title=Richard Stalder (March 1951), Louisiana Voter Portal}}</ref> is the former secretary of the [[Louisiana]] Department of Public Safety & Corrections] a position to which he was appointed in 1992 by then [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]]. The position is now held by Stalder's former colleague.
==Background==
Stalder is one of four children of Edgar Alan Stalder (1923-2015), who died on his 92nd birthday on December 13, 2015, and the former Mildred A. Strahm (1923-1995) of Sabetha, [[Kansas]]. Edgar Stalder was reared on a farm along the [[Kansas]]-[[Nebraska]] border. After distinguished service under [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], with the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II], he received the [[Silver Star]], was recognized by the [[historian]] Stephen Edward Ambrose(1936-2002) with the placing of Stalder's war memoir at both the Eisenhower Center of the University of New Orleans and in the National World War II Museum in [[Washington, D.C.]], he worked for the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] in [[New Orleans]] and later Washington, D.C. Richard Stalder has three siblings, Robert Stalder and his wife, Pattie, of Westmoreland, Kansas; Ronald Stalder of [[Austin]] [[Texas]], and Susan Brinker and her husband, Brian, of Stillwater, [[Oklahoma]].<ref name=fathersobit>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=edgar-a-stalder&pid=176899610&fhid=17442#sthash.WlV4FiKj.dpuf|title=Edgar A. Stalder|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|accessdate=November 28, 2022}}</ref>
==Career==
In 1971, Richard Stalder began working as a prison officer to earn money while attending [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. He worked his way to the positions of federal programs administrator, corrections budget officer, and the superintendent of Louisiana Training Institute in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]], deputy warden of Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana, and warden of David Wade Correctional Center in Homer in Claiborne Parish,<ref>"Richard L. Stalder: Defining a Vision for Louisiana,'' highbeam.com, June 1, 2003, accessed December 16, 2013.</ref> named for the late American general [[David Wade]]. From 1998 to 2000, Stalder was the president of the American Correctional Association.<ref name=lapol/>
Stalder was the choice of a new group founded in 1991 and known as Louisiana Wardens and Superintendent (LAWS) to head the corrections agency. The driving force behind LAWS was Burl Cain, a long-term warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola in West Feliciana Parish, under whom Stalder had previously worked as deputy warden at the Dixon Correctional Institute. Stalder was at first reluctant to take on the statewide position because he preferred to remain warden at David Wade, the only prison in Louisiana at the time to have been accredited by the American Correctional Association. Stalder's colleagues persuaded him to meet with Edwards, then a candidate for a fourth nonconsecutive term as governor, to discuss the secretary's position. After some delay, Edwards appointed Stalder; the position had been traditionally given to political supporters of the governor.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oYGF3ZDsmEYC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Richard+Stalder&source=bl&ots=pHkepxj0Wa&sig=2SJfQr4Lxq_jYBkCDx4m_PQxJEM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8DetUvGdGYnR2AWC4oHgCQ&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Richard%20Stalder&f=false|title=Dennis Shere, Cain's Redemption: A Story of Hope and Transformation in America's Bloodiest Prison, pp. 44-45|publisher=Northfield Publishing Company, 2005; ISBN 978-1-881273-24-0|accessdate=December 16, 2013}}</ref>
Stalder is a registered [[Republican Party|Republican]] voter in Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish]<ref name=voterportal/> In 2003, he was inducted into the [[Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]] in Winnfield.<ref name=lapol>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php?viewID=53|title=Richard Stalder|publisher=lapoliticalmuseum.com|accessdate=December 15, 2013}}</ref> Burl Cain was inducted into the Hall of Fame the previous year in 2002. with his wife, the former Pamela Davis<ref name=fathersobit/> (also born 1951), the couple has two sons, Jonathan Eli Stalder (born 1978) and Christopher Davis Stalder (born 1981).<ref>Richard Stalder (Prison Warden) Wiki, Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth (profilesinfo.com), accessed November 28, 2022.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stalder, Richard}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Government Officials]]
[[Category:Inductees of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame]]