James Earl Mayo (born March 30, 1957), is the mayor of Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States.
A member of the Democratic Party, he endorsed Barack 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).