Adrian Perkins was born on October 23,1985 and is an American politician who served as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana.
19 Facts About Adrian Perkins
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Adrian Perkins ran for the United States Senate in 2020, losing to incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.
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Adrian Perkins is the grandson of a Bossier Parish sharecropper and the youngest of three boys born to Johnny Oliver and Archie Perkins.
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Adrian Perkins was raised in the Broadmoor neighborhood of Shreveport.
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Adrian Perkins attended Arthur Circle, Youree Drive Middle School, and Captain Shreve High School where he was a member of the student council and the varsity football, basketball and track and field teams.
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Adrian Perkins was all-state in track and field in high school.
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Adrian Perkins served eight years in the Army, completing Ranger training, achieving the rank of captain, and serving as a company commander.
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On December 8,2018, Adrian Perkins handily defeated incumbent Ollie Tyler in the runoff to become the 58th mayor of Shreveport.
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Adrian Perkins stressed the need for more community-oriented policing that focuses on positive, relationship building non-law enforcement interactions between police and citizens.
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Adrian Perkins worked to expand Shreveport's budding aviation maintenance industry and the local tech sector.
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Adrian Perkins' first proposed budget was passed by City Council on December 10,2019, and it was Shreveport's first balanced budget in nearly a decade.
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Adrian Perkins called for a monthly sanitation fee for residential and commercial garbage pick-up to be added to municipal water bills to provide sanitation workers with a pay raise and to reduce the $8.4 million subsidy from the general fund for curbside solid waste collection.
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Adrian Perkins utilized technology to geo-locate cases of COVID-19 in the City of Shreveport, noticing a concentration in densely populated, predominately African-American neighborhoods.
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Adrian Perkins drew attention to the disproportionate toll exacted on communities of color by the virus.
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Adrian Perkins's response garnered national attention and a front-page story in the Washington Post.
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Adrian Perkins announced in May 2019 that he opposes his city's ban on persons wearing saggy pants in public.
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On July 22,2020, Adrian Perkins announced that he was running for the United States Senate in 2020, challenging incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.
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Adrian Perkins was endorsed by former President Barack Obama, Governor John Bel Edwards, Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and former presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Cory Booker.
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Adrian Perkins received endorsements from VoteVets, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Executive Committee of the Democratic State Central Committee.