{"id":257171,"date":"2013-05-12T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=257171"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:36:27","slug":"oldest-house-member-ralph-hall-90-to-run-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=257171","title":{"rendered":"Oldest House Member, Ralph Hall, 90, to Run Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Ralph-Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/05\/Ralph-Hall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Hall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-257172\" \/><\/a>PARIS (AP) \u2014 Ninety-year-old Texas Congressman Ralph Hall, whose district use to cover Smith County, says he&#8217;s planning to run for another term next year, extending his tenure as the House&#8217;s oldest member. The Rockwall Republican first was elected in 1980, as a Democrat. He switched to the GOP in 2004. The Paris News reported Hall made his announcement official last week, a few days after his birthday on May 3.<\/p>\n<p>Hall tells The Dallas Morning News he still runs two miles almost daily and is surprised by his good health, doesn&#8217;t understand it but likes it. He says a decline in his health would make him consider retirement.He says job creation and federal deficit reduction are his top priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 Ninety-year-old Texas Congressman Ralph Hall, whose district use to cover Smith County, says he&#8217;s planning to run for another term next year, extending his tenure as the House&#8217;s oldest member. The Rockwall Republican first was elected in 1980, as a Democrat. He switched to the GOP in 2004. The Paris News reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=257171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oldest House Member, Ralph Hall, 90, to Run Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 22:34:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257323,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257171\/revisions\/257323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}