Jamie Mayo
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Mayo in 2012
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Mayor of Monroe Ouachita Parish, Louisiana |
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Assumed office June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Melvin Rambin |
| Member of the Monroe City Council, District 5 | |
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In office November 1995 – June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Charles H. Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Robert C. Johnson |
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James Earl Mayo March 30, 1957 Mer Rouge, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | African American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Washington Mayo |
| Children | Jared and Ashley Mayo |
| Alma mater |
Bastrop High School |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Baptist |
Bastrop High School
James Earl "Jamie" Mayo (born March 30, 1957), is the mayor of Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. He is an African-American Democrat who endorsed Barack H. Obama of Illinois in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
For the second time in a year, Mayo was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives. He lost a runoff election on December 6, 2014, to the Republican candidate, Ralph Lee Abraham, Jr., a physician and former veterinarian from Mangham in Richland Parish. Abraham polled 134,612 votes (64.2 percent) to Mayo's 75,004 (35.8 percent).
A native of Mer Rouge in Morehouse Parish, Mayo graduated from Bastrop High School in Bastrop, the Morehouse Parish seat of government. He then completed a degree in business administration from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he played basketball under Coach Lenny Fant. Prior to becoming mayor, he was employed by State Farm Insurance, Allstate Insurance, and the Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation. He is married to the former Angela Washington. They have two children, Jared and Ashley, graduates of historically black Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana. Mayo is a member of the New Light Baptist Church, Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, the Prince Hall Masonic lodge, and the Monroe Rotary International.
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