Pike Hall, Jr., DeSoto Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************************** Pike Hall, Jr. When at the regular state election of April 22, 1924, the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, comprising Caddo and DeSoto Parishes, elected Pike Hall, Jr., of Shreveport, to the Senate, they conferred upon him the honor of being one of the youngest men ever chosen to the Senate in Louisiana. He is an able young lawyer, has a record of service in the World war, and has social as well as professional positions. His father, Judge W. P. Hall, was born near Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, and was a youth when he moved to Louisiana in 1871, locating at Mansfield. He graduated in law at Tulane University in 1875, beginning practice at Mansfield, was district attorney for seven years, judge of the District Court sixteen years, a district comprising DeSoto, Sabine and Red River Parishes, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1898. In 1920 Judge Hall removed to Shreveport, and has since served as city attorney and as a member of the Caddo Levee Board. He was until recently a trustee in the Southwestern University ,at Lafayette, Louisiana. Judge Hall married first Miss Ida L. Jack and for his second wife, Elsie Talley. Pike Hall, Jr., son of Judge W. P. and Ida (Jack) Hall, was born at Mansfield, Louisiana, in 1896, and has lived in Shreveport since he was four years of age. He was educated in public schools and his liberal advantages afterward included Centenary College, University of the South, Tulane University, and in 1922 he graduated in law from Columbia University in New York City. During the World war he volunteered and served as a private in the United States Army Ambulance Corps with the French Army, during 1917-18. He received his honorable discharge at Fort Oglethorp, Georgia, April 17, 1919. From 1922 to 1924 he was associated with his father, Judge Hall, in practice as a member of the firm Hall & Hall, and at the present time he us a member of the firm of Foster, Hall & Smith, with P. Hall as consulting attorney and with offices in the Slattery Building at Shreveport. Mr. Hall is president of the local chapter of the Alumni Association of Centenary College and a member of the American Business Club. He is a member of the American Legion, the Kappa Alpha college fraternity, and of the Phi Delta Phi honorary legal fraternity. He is also a Mason and a member of the Grotto. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 124, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.