Charles R. Herring

Last updated

Charles Roland Herring
Louisiana State Representative for
District 26 (Rapides Parish)
In office
1988–1992
Preceded by Jock Scott
Succeeded by Israel "Bo" Curtis
Personal details
Born (1945-01-14) January 14, 1945 (age 75)
Place of birth missing
NationalityAmerican
Political party Democrat / later Republican
Residence1 Alexandria
Rapides Parish
Louisiana, USA

(2) Metairie, Jefferson Parish
(3) Amite, Tangipahoa Parish
(4) Baton Rouge, Louisiana

(5)

Contents

Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Alma mater Palmer College of Chiropractic
Occupation Chiropractor
Military service
Branch/service United States Navy

Charles Roland Herring (born January 14, 1945) [1] is a chiropractor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served from 1988 to 1992 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 26 in Alexandria in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. His tenure corresponded with the administration of Governor Buddy Roemer. [2]

Background

Herring graduated in 1968 from the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. 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. [3]

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, Texas, and Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, outside St. Louis, Missouri. [3]

Herring has written scholarly articles carried in such publications as American Chiropractors, Dynamic Chiropractic, The Chiropractor Today, and Chiropractic Technique. [3]

Political life

From 1976 to 1987, Herring was a member of the Louisiana Statewide Health Coordinating Council. [3] Herring won a runoff election on November 21, 1987, for the House seat vacated by Republican Jock Scott, who ran unsuccessfully for the Louisiana State Senate 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 [4] 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). [5] Cicardo had led the five-candidate primary field with 26.7 percent of the votes cast, compared to Herring's 22.9 percent. [6]

Representative Herring served on the House committees of Civil Law and Procedure and Health and Welfare. [3] 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. [7] Herring instead lost a bid in 1991 for the District 29 seat in the Louisiana 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. [8]

More than a decade after his legislative tenure, Democratic 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. [3]

In January 2017, Herring was listed as a Republican voter and a resident of Ward 5 in Livingston Parish outside Baton Rouge by the office of Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler. [1]

Related Research Articles

Richard Baker (U.S. politician) American politician

Richard Hugh Baker is an American politician and lobbyist. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2008, representing the 6th District of Louisiana as a Republican.

W. Fox McKeithen American politician

Walter Fox McKeithen served five terms as Secretary of State of Louisiana between 1988 and 2005. He is best known for merging the state's election divisions into one department and for the promotion of historical preservation.

Kip Holden American politician

Melvin Lee Holden, known as Kip Holden, is an American politician who served from 2005 to 2016 as the Democratic Mayor-President of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA. The parish includes the state capital of Baton Rouge and smaller suburban cities such as Baker, Central City, and Zachary.

Jay Dardenne Louisiana politician

John Leigh "Jay" Dardenne, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who is serving as commissioner of administration for Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards. A Rockefeller Republican, Dardenne served as the 53rd lieutenant governor of his state from 2010 to 2016. Running as a Republican, he won a special election for lieutenant governor held in conjunction with the regular November 2, 2010 general election. At the time, Dardenne was Louisiana secretary of state. Formerly, Dardenne was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for the Baton Rouge suburbs, a position he filled from 1992 until his election as secretary of state on September 30, 2006.

Paul Jude Hardy is an American attorney from Baton Rouge, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, who was the first Republican to have been elected lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He served in the second-ranking post under Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.

Clyde C. Holloway American politician

Clyde Cecil Holloway was an American politician, small business owner, and member of the Republican Party who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and served as one of five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. After seven years in office he did not seek reelection to the PSC in 2016.

Billy Wayne Montgomery, also known as Coach Montgomery, is a former educator who represented the Bossier City-based District 9 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988-2008. He was elected as a Democrat, but he switched affiliation to the Republican Party on October 3, 2006.

Michael Gordon Francis is a Crowley businessman who is a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. He won the right to succeed Clyde C. Holloway, who did not seek reelection and died during the ensuing campaign to choose Holloway's successor on the commission.

Robert Fulton Odom, Jr., was the longest-serving Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry in the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he held his position from 1980 to 2008 through six gubernatorial administrations.

Joe J. Chevalier, known as Jay Chevalier, was a singer and songwriter from the U.S. state of Louisiana who achieved success in several musical genres since the late 1950s. A pioneer of rockabilly music, he is best known within Louisiana for his songs based on politics, sports, and his love for his home state. The first "Official State Troubadour," he is an inductee to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame

Kenneth Edward Havard, known as Kenny Havard, is a businessman from St. Francisville, Louisiana, who is the incoming president of the West Felician Parish government. A Republican, he has served since 2012 as member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 62, which encompasses most of East and West Feliciana parishes and the northwest corner of East Baton Rouge Parish, including the city of Zachary. He will vacate his House seat when he takes over as parish president.

Thomas "Bud" Brady American politician

Thomas Floyd Brady, known as Thomas "Bud" Brady, was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who served from 1976 to 1988 from districts which included his native La Salle Parish and at different times neighboring Caldwell, Grant, Rapides, and Winn parishes.

Sherman A. Bernard Louisiana politician

Sherman Albert Bernard Sr. was a businessman from Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans suburbs, who served from 1972 to 1988 as the Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance. He is mainly remembered for having served forty-one months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty in federal court to extortion in connection with his job duties.

Robert Wayne Bates is a horticultural nurseryman in Forest Hill in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana, who was an agent of the United States Secret Service under U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. He also provided security for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

John Caleb Diez, Sr., known as Juba Diez, is a businessman from Gonzales in Ascension Parish, south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976 to 2004. He was first elected as a Democrat in 1975 in the state's first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary. He won re-election in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, and 1999.

Herbert Bernard Dixon, Sr. is a Democratic politician from Alexandria, Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2008 until his resignation for health reasons on December 11, 2014.

Israel "Bo" Curtis former Louisiana state representative and school board member

Israel Benjamin Curtis, known as Israel "Bo" Curtis, was an African-American educator and funeral home insurance agent who served from 1992 to 2008 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 26 in Alexandria, Louisiana.

John Enoul Jumonville Jr. is a horse breeder from Ventress in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate for District 17 from 1976 to 1992.

Kenneth Eli "Ken" Osterberger, Jr., was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for East Baton Rouge Parish. He served first as a Democrat in the elections of 1972, 1975, 1979, and 1983 and then as a Republican in the contest held in 1987. His tenure ended in 1992, and he was succeeded by the Moderate Republican Jay Dardenne, the current Louisiana commissioner of administration and the former lieutenant governor. His legislative service corresponded with the first three administrations of Governor Edwin Edwards and the intervening years of Governors David C. Treen and Buddy Roemer.

John Michael Guidry is an African-American Democratic judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the First Circuit, Second District, based in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

References

  1. 1 2 "Charles Herring, January 1945". Louisiana Secretary of State . Retrieved December 27, 2014.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2016: Rapides Parish" (PDF). house.Louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "About Dr. Charles Herring". charlesrherring.com. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Cicardo, Jr., Speaks of Strong Family Legacy at SULC" (PDF). SULC Reflections: The Magazine of Southern University Law Center. 2012. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Louisiana general election returns, November 21, 1987". Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Primary election returns, October 24, 1987". Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Louisiana general election returns, November 16, 1991". Louisiana Secretary of State . Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Primary election returns, October 19, 1991". Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
Preceded by
Jock Scott 		Louisiana State Representative for
District 26 (Rapides Parish)

Charles Roland Herring
1988–1992

Succeeded by
Israel "Bo" Curtis
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.