Terry Reeves

Terry Ray Reeves (July 9, 1946 - July 22, 2005), was from 1991 until his death by suicide the district attorney of the 8th Judicial District Court for his native Winn Parish in North Louisiana, the ancestral home of the Long political dynasty.
Biography
Reeves was born in Winnfield, Louisiana, to Jessie W. Reeves (1907-1968) and the former Lois D. "Dude" Robinson (1917-2007). A native of Union Parish in north Louisiana, Jessie Reeves was killed in an automobile accident while traveling from Monroe to Winnfield. He was a brakeman for Missouri Pacific Railroad. Mrs. Reeves was a native of McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma, who for a half century operated a grocery store in Winn Parish.
Reeves graduated in 1964 from Winnfield Senior High School and thereafter Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He served in the United States Air Force. He was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, at the time of his father's death.
Reeves was elected DA to a six-year term on October 6, 1990, by 46 votes over his fellow Democrat, Charles Bradley Bice (born July 1937), also of Winnfield, 3,360 votes (50.3 percent) to 3,314 (49.7 percent). In 1996, Reeves again faced Charles Bice and a No Party candidate, Jim Lewis. Reeves prevailed in a runoff election held on November 5 with 4,020 votes (53 percent) to Bice's 3,560 (47 percent).
He ran without opposition for his third uncompleted term in 2002. After an interim period from July 2005 to April 2006 under Democrat Martin S. "Marty" Sanders, Richard Christopher "Chris" Nevels (born December 1969), a Democrat who later turned Independent, polled 57.8 percent of the vote in the special election held on April 1, 2006, to choose Reeves's successor. Nevils, who is still the DA, had previous experience in the district attorney's office in East Baton Rouge Parish and, in his words, was the "only candidate to have prosecuted successfully misdemeanor and felony criminal cases and continued with their appeal through state, federal, and U.S. supreme courts." a daughter, Deanna Renee Reeves Sutton (born October 1975) of Louisville, Kentucky. amid allegations of embezzlement and extortion in office. Reeves is interred along with his parents at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Winnfield.

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