Complex sentence: McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995, when voters chose the Democrat B.G. Dyess, an ordained Baptist minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964-1988.
Split into simpler sentences: McPherson did not seek a fourth consecutive term in 1995. Voters chose the Democrat B.G. Dyess, an ordained Baptist minister who had been the Rapides Parish registrar of voters from 1964-1988.