{"id":1196593,"date":"2023-01-24T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1196593"},"modified":"2023-01-25T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:50:50","slug":"ralph-caraway-jr-appointed-as-smith-county-precinct-1-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1196593","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Caraway Jr. appointed  as Smith County Precinct 1 constable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1196595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-175x176.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-349x350.jpg 349w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Longtime Smith County employee Ralph Caraway Jr. took the oath of office Tuesday after being appointed by the Commissioners Court as Smith County Precinct 1 constable. The appointment followed the resignation of Curtis Traylor-Harris. Caraway was appointed and sworn in as interim constable July 8, 2022, while Harris was awaiting trial on felony charges. He has since been convicted and is awaiting appeal, according to a county news release. Since Traylor-Harris sent a resignation letter to County Judge Neal Franklin and it was approved by the Commissioners Court Tuesday, Caraway will now serve as Precinct 1 Constable until the 2024 Primary and General Elections are held. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/908\/97\">here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Longtime Smith County employee Ralph Caraway Jr. took the oath of office Tuesday after being appointed by the Commissioners Court as Smith County Precinct 1 constable. The appointment followed the resignation of Curtis Traylor-Harris. Caraway was appointed and sworn in as interim constable July 8, 2022, while Harris was awaiting trial on felony &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1196593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ralph Caraway Jr. appointed  as Smith County Precinct 1 constable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1196599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ralph Caraway Jr. appointed  as Smith County Precinct 1 constable","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 22:16:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/Ralph-Caraway-Jr-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ralph Caraway Jr. appointed  as Smith County Precinct 1 constable","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196597,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196593\/revisions\/1196597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}