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On December 8, 2018, Adrian D. Perkins was elected Mayor of Shreveport and will succeed Ollie Tyler on December 29, 2018.
Bronze Star. Adrian Perkins (born October 23, 1985) [1] is an American politician and attorney who served as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana. Perkins is a graduate of both the United States Military Academy at West Point and Harvard Law School, and is an Army veteran. He ran for the United States Senate in 2020, losing to incumbent ...
Politics of Shreveport. Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1871, Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. The city is the parish seat of Caddo Parish. A portion of east Shreveport extends in to Bossier Parish because of the changing course of the Red River . The city of Shreveport has a mayor-council government.
History of Louisiana. Shreve Town was originally contained within the boundaries of a section of land sold to the company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in the year of 1835, during the period of Indian Removal. [1] In 1838, Caddo Parish was created from the large Natchitoches Parish and Shreve Town was designated as the parish seat.
Contents. Caddo Parish, Louisiana. United States. ( 2020) Caddo Parish ( French: Paroisse de Caddo) ( / ˈkædoʊ /) is a parish located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 237,848. [1] The parish seat is Shreveport, which developed along the Red River.
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [1] or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto. [2] At the 2020 United States census, the ...
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a public university in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System . Initially, a two-year college, LSUS has expanded into a university with 21 undergraduate degree programs, a dozen master's degree programs, and more recently a Doctorate of ...
October 6, 2008 [2] Designated CP. May 16, 1997 [3] Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium is a historic performance and meeting venue at 705 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is an Art Deco building constructed between 1926 and 1929 during the administration of Mayor Lee Emmett Thomas as a memorial to the servicemen of ...