Jimmy Hayes

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James Allison "Jimmy" Hayes (born December 21, 1946) is a politician from the state of Louisiana.

Hayes was born in Lafayette, and he graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then the University of Southwestern Louisiana). Hayes served in the Louisiana Air National Guard from 1968 to 1974. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1986. Hayes left the Democratic party on December 1, 1995 and joined the Republican party. Hayes then ran for the United States Senate in 1996, finishing fifth in the open primary with almost 72,000 votes (6 percent of the vote). The post was finally won by the Democrat Mary Landrieu.

In 1992, Hayes defeated his own brother, Fredric Hayes, a Republican, with whom he had quarreled. Hayes received 84,149 (73 percent) to his brother's 23,870 (21 percent). A second Republican, Robert J. "Bob" Nain polled 7,184 votes (6 percent) of the vote.

In 1994, Hayes defeated a comeback bid by former Eighth District Congressman Clyde C. Holloway of Forest Hill in Rapides Parish. Hayes polled 72,424 votes (53 percent) to Holloway's 54,253 (40 percent). Another 7 percent of voters supported a candidate who ran as "no party."


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