Career
His tenure from 1964 to 1968 corresponded with the first administration of Governor John McKeithen. Long had lost the House race to Tarver in 1963. Tarver was the youngest of three children born to Richard David Tarver, Junior.
(1888-1963) and the former Lula Lee Ellzey (1892-1950).
Richard, Lula, and Lovis Tarver are interred at Pine Grove Cemetery in the Hagewood community of rural Natchitoches Parish. In 1952, Tarver received his Doctor ol Dental Surgery degree from Loyola University in New Orleans.
In 1956, Doctor Tarver married the former Evelyn Marie Youngblood, who was born on January 20, 1936, in Powhatan, a village in Natchitoches Parish. She is the daughter of Elmer "Ray" Youngblood and the former Rosa Leona King.
Tarver died late in 1972, two weeks before his 51st birthday.
In 1975, Evelyn married Carroll C. Carnahan. Doctor Tarver is interred at Memory Lawn Cemetery in Natchitoches.
