Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Stephen Wayne Prator, Sr., known as Steve Prator (born September 1951), is the first Republican since Reconstruction to serve as sheriff of Caddo Parish in far northwestern Louisiana.The son of Sheldon Perry Prator (1926–2001), Prator's paternal roots are in Cass County, in east Texas. His grandparents were Joseph Bell Prator (1893–1962) and the former Erne Ruth Simpson (1896–1990). He has a brother, David Perry Prator of Kingwood, Texas. He is married to the former Carolyn Craig. His children are Stephen Prator, Jr., Jon Joseph Prator, and Tracey Prator Cascio He was born in Tennessee.Prator received a bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He also graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Executive Institute in Quantico, Virginia. He attended basic police academy at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.In 1973, Prator became a Shreveport police officer. In 1990, Hazel Beard, the first Republican mayor of Shreveport since Reconstruction, named Prator chief of police, an appointive position. In 1999, he stepped down as police chief to run for sheriff and was elected to the first of his thus far four terms in that position. In that first campaign, Prator led with 37,739 votes (70.5 percent), compared to 13,858 (25.9 percent) for the Democrat Marshall W. Nelson, and 1,921 votes (3.6 percent) for the No-Party candidate, Robert N. Creamer. Creamer also ran against Prator in 2003.. }
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- Steve_Prator abstract "Stephen Wayne Prator, Sr., known as Steve Prator (born September 1951), is the first Republican since Reconstruction to serve as sheriff of Caddo Parish in far northwestern Louisiana.The son of Sheldon Perry Prator (1926–2001), Prator's paternal roots are in Cass County, in east Texas. His grandparents were Joseph Bell Prator (1893–1962) and the former Erne Ruth Simpson (1896–1990). He has a brother, David Perry Prator of Kingwood, Texas. He is married to the former Carolyn Craig. His children are Stephen Prator, Jr., Jon Joseph Prator, and Tracey Prator Cascio He was born in Tennessee.Prator received a bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He also graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Executive Institute in Quantico, Virginia. He attended basic police academy at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.In 1973, Prator became a Shreveport police officer. In 1990, Hazel Beard, the first Republican mayor of Shreveport since Reconstruction, named Prator chief of police, an appointive position. In 1999, he stepped down as police chief to run for sheriff and was elected to the first of his thus far four terms in that position. In that first campaign, Prator led with 37,739 votes (70.5 percent), compared to 13,858 (25.9 percent) for the Democrat Marshall W. Nelson, and 1,921 votes (3.6 percent) for the No-Party candidate, Robert N. Creamer. Creamer also ran against Prator in 2003.".