Clarence R. Fields
| Clarence Ray Fields Sr.. | |
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| Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana, US | |
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Assumed office December 14, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Leo Deslatte |
| Pineville City Councilman (District 2) | |
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In office July 1, 1998 – December 14, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Charles O'Banion |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Dorn |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 7, 1955 Pineville, Louisiana |
| Nationality | African-American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Rosa Ceasar Fields |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Former J. S. Slocum High School |
| Occupation | Former power company employee |
Clarence Ray Fields Sr. (born November 7, 1955), is an African-American Democrat who has been since December 14, 1999, the mayor of majority white Pineville, Louisiana, the sister city separated by the Red River from the larger Alexandria, both in Rapides Parish.
Fields was born at the former Huey P. Long Medical Center in Pineville, a state charity hospital which operated from 1939 to 2014. Officials are seeking to have the structure, under the original name of Huey P. Long Memorial Hospital, placed into the National Register of Historic Places. Fields graduated c. 1973 from the former J. S. Slocum High School at 901 Crepe Myrtle Street in Pineville, now the J. S. Slocum Learning Center. He was formerly employed for twenty-two years by the Pineville-based Central Louisiana Electric Company (CLECO). He and his wife, the former Rosa Ceasar, have two children, Clarence Jr., and Bethany Fields, and one grandchild. The family is actively involved in the First United Methodist Church of Pineville.
Prior to becoming mayor, Fields served on the Rapides Area Planning Commission and the board of directors of Rapides Senior Citizens. He became mayor when Leo Deslatte, a Republican elected in 1998, proved unable to work with the city council and resigned after less than two years into his term. Deslatte said that the political pressure was too much to make the job worth keeping. The council then appointed Fields, one of its five members, as the interim mayor. Fields was then elected to a partial term in October 2000. Unseated by Deslatte, former Mayor Fred Baden announced that he would challenge Fields for the partial term but subsequently withdrew from consideration, and George E. Hearn, a Louisiana College psychology professor and former city council member, ran for mayor. Fields received 2,228 votes (65.7 percent) to Hearn's 1,102 (32.5 percent).
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