Joshua Malik Hall is the representative for

District 7 District 7 could refer to: * District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam * District 7 (Zürich), Switzerland *District 7, Düsseldorf, Germany *VII District, Turku, Finland *District 7 School (Groton, Massachusetts), United States *District 7 School (Han ...

of the

Connecticut House of Representatives The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with ...

. He was elected in a special election on April 25, 2017. He was elected on the

Working Families Party The Working Families Party (WFP) is a minor political party in the United States, founded in New York in 1998. There are active chapters in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Ne ...

line, but is a registered

Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...

and joined the Democratic majority in the Connecticut House.

Early life, education and career

Hall is the former vice president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers and is a former teacher at Weaver High School.

Elections

*2017 Special. Hall received 41.1% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Rickey Pinckney Sr. and

Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

Kenneth P. Green.

External links

Biography
at Ballotpedia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, Joshua M Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Working Families Party politicians African-American state legislators in Connecticut 21st-century African-American people