Ralph T. Troy

Ralph Talbot Troy, Sr. (born 1935), is a retired mortgage banker formerly from Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who was the mayor of that city from 1972 to 1976, sandwiched between the fourth and fifth terms of his fellow Democrat, W. L. "Jack" Howard.

Troy is a 1957 honor graduate of the Episcopal-affiliated University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Thereafter, he enrolled at Roman Catholic-affiliated Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He is listed in the Tulane yearbook as a freshman law student in 1958.

Troy unseated Howard in the closed Democratic primary election in the spring of 1972. Many financial problems fell upon the city during Troy's tenure, including the failure on two occasions to pay municipal employees. Governor Edwin Edwards approved a bailout in 1976, when Howard returned to the office for just over two years in his final term.

Troy was listed in 1980 as a donor to U.S. Senator Russell B. Long, who won his last term that year by defeating then Democrat, later Republican, Woody Jenkins. He later contributed to the North Carolina Democratic Party.

Troy resides in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the former Frances "Francie" Warner. Previously, he lived in Boone, North Carolina, where he was employed at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. He also formerly resided in Blowing Rock, Hendersonville, and Raleigh, North Carolina.