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'Frank Melton' (born 1950) is currently the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, having been inaugurated on 4 July 2005. Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson, who had served two terms. Melton quickly swept into action after a "Help is on the way!" campaign to rid Jackson of black-on-black drug-related crime (at his inauguration, he promised to run the "thugs" out of town), improving economic development, and improving city infrastructure. Since Melton became mayor, he has touted economic-development projects totaling over $1.6 billion, creating at least 4,500 jobs in the city, but others point out that many of those projects were in the works when he arrived.