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Ollie Mae Spearman Tyler (born January 6,1945) is the former mayor of Shreveport,Louisiana. On December 27,2014 she succeeded the term-limitedCedric Glover,her fellow Democrat,in the highest position in Shreveport municipal government.[1] She failed in her bid for a second term in the runoff election held on December 8,2018,having been defeated by another Democrat,Adrian Perkins.
Education and politics
Tyler is the seventh of nine children of Leroy and Ida Haley Spearman. She was born in Blanchard and reared on a dairy farm. She picked cotton as a girl and ironed and cleaned a residence to earn her lunch money. She graduated as valedictorian from Herndon High School in Belcher and earned a National Merit Scholarship to the Grambling State University,from where she received a Bachelor of Science degree. She taught at Youree Drive Middle School for twenty-three years until she was appointed as the school's first female African-American principal.[2]
In 1994 the Caddo Parish School Board named Tyler Director of Middle Schools and elevated her to deputy superintendent. In 2000,Tyler became deputy superintendent/chief academic officer for the New Orleans city public schools where she served for three years. In 2003,she returned to the Caddo Parish School Board in Shreveport as the parish superintendent.[2] In 2004 she was a member of the education transition team for incoming governor of LouisianaKathleen Blanco. In 2007 she was named "Louisiana Superintendent of the Year".[3] In 2007 Tyler assumed the position as Deputy State Superintendent of Education under state superintendent Paul Pastorek. Tyler served as interim Louisiana state education superintendent;having served in that capacity from May 2011 to January 2012 between the appointments of Pastorek and John C. White.
In the runoff election for mayor of Shreveport that took place on December 6,2014,Tyler handily defeated an Independent candidate,teacher Victoria Provenza. Tyler received 34,208 votes (63.4 percent) to Provenza's 19,781 (36.6 percent).[5] A third candidate,State RepresentativePatrick C. Williams,was eliminated in the primary election with 12,880 votes (21.7 percent). Tyler had led in the primary as well with 26,017 votes (43.7 percent) to Provenza's 15,155 (25.5 percent).[6]
Tyler is included among the "Ten Most Influential Women in Northwest Louisiana."[3]
In her bid for a second term as mayor,in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on November 6,2018,Tyler faced Democrats Adrian Perkins and Steven Jackson and Republicans Lee O. Savage Jr. and Jim Taliaferro.[7] Tyler trailed in the primary with 24 percent of the vote and faced fellow Democrat Adrian Perkins in the runoff primary. Because Savage and Taliaferro divided the Republican vote,34 percent of the primary total,the GOP was shut out of the mayoral runoff.[8]
In the runoff election,Tyler lost to Perkins,who polled 25,138 votes (64.4 percent) to Tyler's 13,895 (35.6 percent).[9]
Personal life
Tyler became the focus of controversy near the end of her first mayoral campaign when she confirmed reports uncovered by the political consultant Elliott Stonecipher and others that she had shot her first husband,Clyde Edward Harris,to death with a pistol at her parents' residence at 1807 Ebony Street in Shreveport on August 5,1968. Tyler claimed that Harris had repeatedly beaten her. She was twenty-three at the time;he was twenty-four,and they had an infant son. Tyler told police at the time that she suspected Harris had been unfaithful to her and that the two had been estranged for much of their brief marriage. They lived at 1433 Harvard Street. The death was ruled an "accidental and justifiable homicide," and the Caddo Parish district attorney never charged Ollie Tyler with a crime.[10][11] Tyler much later accused her father of domestic abuse and blamed him largely for an unhappy childhood.[2]
Tyler is the widow of the Reverend James C. Tyler (1941-1990),whom she wed in 1972. He was employed by Melton Truck Lines and was an associate of the minister and civil rights figure Herman Farr,one of the first African Americans elected to the Shreveport City Council in 1978,when the chamber was converted to the single-member district concept. A native of DeSoto Parish,James Tyler is interred at the Upper Zion Baptist Church Cemetery in Blanchard.[12]
Tyler has one son,Bruce Anthony "Tony" Tyler,who was born in 1968,the same year as the shooting of his father,Clyde Harris.[13] Tony Harris was adopted by James Tyler and reared as Tyler's own son.[11] Ollie Tyler also has a stepdaughter and two grandchildren.[3]
Blanchard is the suburban town in, and the second-largest municipality by population of Caddo Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 3,538 at the 2020 U.S. census, it is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area.
Caddo Public Schools is a school district based in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. The district serves all of Caddo Parish.
Keith Paul Hightower is an American businessman who was from 1998 to 2006 the Democratic mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Hazel Beard is the first woman and the first Republican to have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, since the era of Reconstruction. Prior to her mayoral service, Beard was a small business owner and a member of the Shreveport City Council from the southwest portion of the city. She was the first woman to have been chairperson of the city council.
Roy McArthur Hopkins, known as Hoppy Hopkins, was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 1 in northern Caddo Parish and two precincts in northern Bossier Parish from 1988 until his Thanksgiving Day death after a long illness of bone cancer. In 1966, Hopkins moved his family to Oil City and made his living there as an automobile dealer.
The 2014 Shreveport mayoral election resulted in the election of the Democrat Ollie Tyler as the first African-American female mayor of Shreveport. She defeated Victoria Provenza in the runoff election to succeed the term-limited incumbent Cedric Glover. The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on November 4, 2014, and as no candidate obtained the required majority, the general election followed on December 6, 2014.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
The 2018 Shreveport mayoral election resulted in the election of Democrat Adrian Perkins who defeated incumbent mayor of Shreveport Ollie Tyler in the runoff. The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on November 6, 2018, and as no candidate obtained the required majority, the general election followed on December 8, 2018.
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