Jeffrey W. Hall | |
Term Start: | December 4, 2018 |
Term End: | December 5, 2022 |
Preceded: | Jacques Roy |
Succeeded: | Jacques Roy |
State House1: | Louisiana |
District1: | 26th |
Term Start1: | February 2015 |
Term End1: | December 2018 |
Preceded1: | Herbert Dixon |
Succeeded1: | Ed Larvadain |
Party: | Democratic |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1951 |
Residence: | Alexandria, Louisiana, U.S. |
Education: | Grambling State University |
Jeffrey W. Hall (born December 26, 1951)[1] is an American politician and accountant who served as the 24th mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana from 2018 to 2022. 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]
Hall graduated from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. He has resided in Pineville, Opelousas, and Mansfield, Louisiana, and Amarillo, Texas.[3]
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.[4] Mayor Jacques Roy, first elected in 2006, chose not seek a fourth term in the November 6 primary.[5]
Hall placed first in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 7,842 votes.[6] Turnout was just under 50 percent of registered voters.[7]
On November 8, 2022, Hall was defeated by his predecessor, Jacques Roy, in the Alexandria mayoral race, receiving 22% of the vote to Roy's 55%.[8]