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About Bo Williams
- Robert Warren Williams, known as Bo Williams (born July 21, 1938), is a Republican former mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, having served a single term from 1994 to 1998. Williams defeated his fellow city council member, Democrat Roy Cary, an African-American, 38,596 votes (59 percent) to 27,018 (41 percent).
- Eliminated in the nonpartisan blanket primary was the Democratic former Mayor John Brennan Hussey. As his chief administrative officer, Mayor Williams chose Wendell Fraser Collins (1938-2018), a native of Many in Sabine Parish and a former long-term employee of AT&T.In 1990, Williams was elected to a single term on the Shreveport City Council from District E.
- He received, 6,293 votes (53 percent) to Democrat John L.
- Albritton's 5,503 ballots (47 percent).
- He left the council after one term to become mayor. Williams was physically impaired as mayor.
- He used a wheelchair as a result of an accident several years earlier and had limited upper-body movement.
- Former Mayor James C.
- Gardner in his memoirs entitled Jim Gardner and Shreveport, Vol.
- II, describes Williams as follows: I came to realize that most Shreveporters did not comprehend the physical limitations of the mayor.
- This was to handicap him politically as he could not be as physically visible as the citizens were accustomed .
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- and this was sometimes interpreted as lack of activity.
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- Mayor Williams compensated for his physical limitations by his study of city government.
- He knew his facts and figures: he did his homework.
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- A very pleasant man, he was always especially gracious to former mayors.
- Invitations were forthcoming to us for dedication type ceremonies.
- This included his election opponent, Mayor Hussey. Williams pushed for the completion of Interstate 49, the north-south link from Shreveport to Lafayette.
- Gardner claims that I-49 was not a priority of Governor Murphy J.
- "Mike" Foster, Jr., the Republican who served from 1996 to 2004. In the 1998 nonpartisan blanket primary, Williams ran a weak second and withdrew from a pending general election.
- Democratic candidate Keith Paul Hightower, the District C council member from southeast Shreveport, led with 20,250 votes (42 percent) to Williams' 13,637 (28 percent).
- Three other candidates, two Democrats and another Republican, divided the remaining 30 percent of the ballots.
- Williams, who trailed by nearly 7,000 votes, declined to proceed to a second round of balloting, and Hightower hence won the position outright.
- Hightower served two terms. Williams and his wife, the former Melba Clark (born 1939), reside in Shreveport.
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