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Jerry Carl, a Republican who represented Alabama's 1st congressional district from 2021 to 2025, is his party's nominee for the 1st district seat in 2026 against Democrat Clyde Jones, a community organizer.
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Figures, Marques trade blame over farm bill in Alabama House race
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- Born
- June 17, 1958
- Birthplace
- Mobile, Alabama
- Education
- Sylacauga High School (1977)
Lake City Community College (now Florida Gateway College)
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Background
Jerry Carl, whose full name is Jerry Lee Carl Jr., was born on June 17, 1958, and is a native of Mobile, Alabama. After graduating from Sylacauga High School in 1977, he attended Lake City Community College, now Florida Gateway College, for a time before moving back to Mobile to start his first business. Carl married his wife, Tina, in 1981, and the couple have two children. He is a Baptist.
Career
Jerry Carl spent his early working life in business, first at Alabama Power and Burford Equipment Company and then as a salesman for several companies in Mobile.
He established Stat Medical, a healthcare equipment business, in 1989, later worked as a manager at Rotech Medical, and went on to found a real estate development firm, the management group Carl and Associates in 2003, and the lumber and timber company Cricket and Butterfly, LLC.
He won a seat on the Mobile County Commission in 2012 after defeating incumbent Mike Dean in the Republican primary, was reelected in 2016, and was selected as commission president in 2019.
When Republican Bradley Byrne vacated the 1st district in 2020, Carl defeated former state senator Bill Hightower in a runoff for the Republican nomination and won the general election against Democrat James Averhart with 64.4% of the vote. He was reelected in 2022 over Libertarian Alexander Remrey.
In the 118th Congress he served on the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural Resources. After redistricting following Allen v. Milligan placed him in the same district as fellow incumbent Barry Moore, Carl lost the Republican primary of March 5, 2024, to Moore by 3.4%.
2026 race
Jerry Carl is the Republican nominee in the 2026 election for Alabama's 1st congressional district, a seat held by Republican Barry Moore, who was elected with 78.4% of the vote in 2024 and is running in the 2026 Senate election.
Under the legislature-approved redistricted map, the 1st district was redrawn to cover the southwestern part of the state near the Gulf of Mexico, including all of Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia and Covington counties.
Carl led the nonbinding May Republican primary with 40.3% of the vote, ahead of state representative Rhett Marques at 31.1%, and then won the special Republican primary with 74.7% against small business executive Austin Sidwell and two other candidates.
In the November 3, 2026, general election he faces Democrat Clyde Jones, a community organizer.