Difference between revisions of "Shreveport"
(→Notable people) |
(→Notable people) |
||
Line 86: | Line 86: | ||
*[[Charles Scott]], Caddo Parish district attorney, 2009 to 2015; former state court judge | *[[Charles Scott]], Caddo Parish district attorney, 2009 to 2015; former state court judge | ||
*[[B. L. "Buddy" Shaw]], educator and member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature | *[[B. L. "Buddy" Shaw]], educator and member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature | ||
− | |||
*[[Virginia Shehee]], former state senator, businesswoman, and civic leader | *[[Virginia Shehee]], former state senator, businesswoman, and civic leader | ||
*[[LeRoy Smallenberger]], state Republican chairman, 1960 to 1964 | *[[LeRoy Smallenberger]], state Republican chairman, 1960 to 1964 |
Revision as of 20:35, September 18, 2019
Shreveport is the third largest city in the state of Louisiana, with a 2000 population of 392,302 in 2000.[1] Located in the northwestern corner of the state, Shreveport is near the point where Louisiana meets Arkansas and Texas. The city is named for Capt. Henry Miller Shreve, a riverboat captain credited with clearing a major logjam on the Red River in the 1830s; this action allowed trade to flourish in the region. Barksdale Air Force Base, headquarters of the 8th Air Force, is located across the Red River in Bossier City. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II are the primary aircraft at the base, which opened in 1933. Shreveport was also a major oil business center and Standard Oil of Louisiana was based in the city until it was absorbed into Standard Oil (Esso) of New Jersey. Shreveport is the home of Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS), Centenary College, Southern University at Shreveport, and Louisiana Baptist University.
History
Shreveport weathered the Great Depression better than most towns. The city's civic improvement projects, begun in the 1920s and completed by 1930, helped to sustain the optimistic view that prosperous times awaited. Transportation and educational improvements, supported by federal dollars, continued even in hard times. The Chamber of Commerce waged a publicity campaign to boost retail sales and project optimism. The Chamber also established a farmer's market and lobbied for state road funds. Construction at Barksdale Field, at the time the largest airfield in the world, began in 1931. Barksdale provided jobs and injected cash into the local economy.[2]
At the city and parish government offices in downtown Shreveport sets the Caddo Parish Confederate Monument, a 30-foot granite-and-marble structure likely to be dismantled or relocated pending a permanent decision in the United States District Court by Judge Robert G. James. The United Daughters of the Confederacy has claimed ownership of the parcel of land on which the monument sets, but Judge James said no real proof of the claim has been advanced. The removal will be another in a series of politically correct decisions made by southern politicians seeking to apologize to their African-American communities for the Confederate rebellion in the American Civil War.[3]
Shreveport sports
In the 1990s, Shreveport had a professional football team, the Shreveport Pirates, from the Canadian Football League. The Pirates, like all of the American CFL teams, had folded by 1996. Shreveport was a potential city to temporarily house the NFL's New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina, but they instead played at San Antonio and at LSU Stadium in Baton Rouge. The Saints would play the Dallas Cowboys in Shrveport during the 2006 NFL preseason.
Notable people
- Royal Alexander, attorney and Republican politician
- Calhoun Allen, mayor, 1970-1978
- Robert E. Anderson, Southern Baptist clergyman; born and reared in Shreveport, pastor in Baton Rouge thereafter.
- Douglas Attaway, general manager and president of the Shreveport Journal prior to his death in 1957
- Douglas Fisher Attaway, publisher of The Shreveport Journal from 1957 to 1976
- John Richard Ballard, judge
- Jack Barham, photographer for The Shreveport Times
- Charles T. Beaird, businessman, philanthropist, last publisher of The Shreveport Journal
- Thornton F. Bell, judge of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District; donated the live oaks at the courthouse square
- Neal Bolin, judge of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District, 1968 to 1990
- Terry Bradshaw, football star, sports broadcaster, actor, singer/songwriter
- Eric Brock, historian
- Tommy Brown, cardiologist
- Beverly Bruce, former state representative
- Richard Burford, dairy farmer and former state representative from Stonewall in south Caddo Parish
- George A. Burton, last of the finance commissioners under the former commission form of city government
- Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish coroner, 1912-1961; 1962-1964; 1974-1979
- Jerry Byrd, sportswriter
- Clem S. Clarke, oilman and Republican politician
- Lane Crockett, former entertainment editor and nationally syndicated columnist for The Shreveport Times
- J. Earl Downs, former Shreveport public safety commissioner
- Wayne DuBose, Southern Baptist clergyman
- Forrest Dunn, businessman and state representative from 1972 to 1984
- Denny Duron, non-denominational pastor; former football player and coach
- Craig Durrett, journalist
- Rick Edmonds, state representative from Baton Rouge; native Shreveporter and former resident
- Herman Farr, civil rights activist
- John Fellers, former pastor of the First United Methodist Church in downtown Shreveport
- John McWilliams Ford, state representative, mayor, 35-year finance commissioner
- Dolph Frantz, former managing editor of The Shreveport Journal
- J. Howell Flournoy, sheriff of Caddo Parish from 1940 to 1966
- James C. Gardner, mayor from 1954 to 1958, active civic figure
- Terry Gardner, Shreveport native and the incoming 2019 mayor of Minden, Louisiana
- Jerry Gaw, historian; resided in Shreveport, 1978-1983
- Alexander Banks George, state senator, mayor of Minden, and circuit court judge based in Shreveport in mid-19th century
- B. H. Gilley, historian
- James M. Goslin, Caddo Parish sheriff from 1966 to 1976
- Dallas Greene, fire chief, 1965-1989
- Tim Greening, journalist
- Billy Guin, last of the utilities commissioners under the commission form of government
- Andy Clay Harris, former pastor of The Church of the Cross in Haughton; formerly with Broadmoor Assembly of God in Shreveport
- James Henderson, president of the University of Louisiana System, former presideny of Northwestern State University, and Shreveport native
- Joe Holoubek, physician who worked for establishment of the LSU Medical School in Shreveport
- Sarah Hudson-Pierce, journalist and publisher
- Guy Humphries, state court judge in Alexandia Shreveport native
- Whitfield Jack, attorney
- Joseph B. Johnson, educator who was president of Grambling State University from 1977 to 1991; began his teaching career in Shreveport
- Mike Johnson, current 4th district U.S. Representative; Shreveport native who resides in Bossier Parish
- J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., former U.S. senator
- Edward Kennon, developer and former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission
- Jenny Moreland Kennon, Shreveport real estate developer
- Horace Ladymon, former president of defunct Beall-Ladymon Corporation, now Stage Stores, Inc.
- Joe Lawler, businessman and three-term Caddo Parish police juror
- A. M. Leary, businessman and politician
- Stan Lewis, record shop owner who held two music labels, Jewel and Cobra
- Russell Long, former U.S. senator
- Charlton Lyons, businessman and gubernatorial candidate
- Susybelle Lyons, Shreveport socialite
- Vincent Marsala, chancellor of LSU in Shreveport, 1995 to 2012
- Fred C. McClanahan, businessman and Republican politician
- Henry Langston McEachern, award-winning photographer for The Shreveport Times
- Reuben McKellar, Texas-born planter who served as Shreveport mayor from 1896 to 1900
- C. Wade Meade, historian
- Gus Mijales, businessman and confidante of former Governor Edwin Edwards
- John Milkovich, state senator from Caddo and DeSoto parishes; author of book critical of special counsel Robert Mueller
- H. Lane Mitchell, Shreveport public works commissioner, 1934 to 1968
- Elmo Norton, businessman and political activist
- Don Owen, newscaster and public service commissioner
- Louis Pendleton, civil rights activist
- Steve Prator, sheriff of Caddo Parish since 2000
- Rogers M. Prestridge, former municipal judge in Bossier City; later attorney in Shreveport
- Robert Pugh, attorney and gubernatorial advisor
- Gene Reynolds, state representative for Webster Parish; Shreveport native
- H. J. Sachs, English professor at Louisiana Tech University; retired to Shreveport
- Charles Scott, Caddo Parish district attorney, 2009 to 2015; former state court judge
- B. L. "Buddy" Shaw, educator and member of both houses of the Louisiana state legislature
- Virginia Shehee, former state senator, businesswoman, and civic leader
- LeRoy Smallenberger, state Republican chairman, 1960 to 1964
- Tom Stagg, U.S. district judge, 1974-2015
- Ansel Stroud, former adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard
- Scott Tatum, Southern Baptist clergyman
- Harold Terry, Caddo Parish sheriff from 1976 to 1980 and expert marksman
- Jimmy G. Tharpe, Independent Baptist clergyman and college founder
- Ned Touchstone, newspaper publisher associated with the "Radical Right" of the 1960s
- Randall Webb, former president of Northwestern State University
- Earl Williamson, former mayor of Vivian and long-term member of the Caddo Parish Police Jury
- Tedford Williamson, Texas businessman born in Shreveport in 1957
- Jerry Wray, watercolor artist
References
- ↑ [1] 2000 Census
- ↑ Tom R. Thomas, "A Look at Shreveport's Reaction to the Great Depression, 1929-1935," North Louisiana History 1995 26(4): 125-145.
- ↑ Judge's refusal to block statue removal stands. The Shreveport Times (May 15, 2018). Retrieved on May 16, 2018.