Jeff Hall (politician)

Jeffrey W. "Jeff" Hall (born December 26, 1951)^[1] is an American politician and accountant serving as the 24th mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana. On taking office on December 4, 2018, he stepped down as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 26 in Rapides Parish, a position which he assumed in 2015.^[2]

Early life and education[]

Hall graduated from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana.^[2] He has resided in Pineville, Opelousas, and Mansfield, Louisiana, and Amarillo, Texas.^[3]

Career[]

Hall won a special election to the House on February 21, 2015, with 84 percent of the vote. His two intra-party rivals, Alice "Red" Hammond and Daniel Williams, held the remaining 16 percent of the ballots cast in a low-turnout contest.^[4] The position opened when the African-American Democrat, Herbert Dixon, resigned because of health issues. On November 4, 2014, Hall had placed second with just over a third of the vote in the nonpartisan blanket primary to unseat Mayor Jacques Roy of Alexandria, who instead won a majority for his third term in office.^[1]

Hall stressed economic development, jobs, and resolving the $1 billion state budget shortfall as the principal issues he would face as state representative.^[1]

In 2018, Hall announced that he would again run for mayor of Alexandria.^[5] Mayor Jacques Roy, first elected in 2006, chose not seek a fourth term in the November 6 primary.^[6]

Hall placed first in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 7,842 votes.^[7] Turnout was just under 50 percent of registered voters.^[8]

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