Jeffrey W. "Jeff" Hall (born December 26, 1951) 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 The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 repr ...

for District 26 in Rapides Parish, a position which he assumed in 2015.

Early life and education

Hall graduated from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. He has resided in Pineville, Opelousas, and

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, Louisiana, and Amarillo, Texas.

Career

Hall stressed economic development, jobs, and resolving the $1 billion state budget shortfall as the principal issues he would face as state representative. In 2018, Hall announced that he would again run for mayor of Alexandria. Mayor Jacques Roy, first elected in 2006, chose not seek a fourth term in the November 6 primary. Hall placed first in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 7,842 votes. Turnout was just under 50 percent of registered voters. 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%.

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