Biography of 	Hall, William T. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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William T. Hall is a New Orleans man who has made of business a real profession. 
He has valued his work as worthy of his best energies, talents and enthusiasm and 
has been satisfied with nothing less than the highest realizable fitness for the 
work he does.  Mr. Hall is a prominent figure in the rice milling industry of 
Louisiana, and he also enjoys a notable honor and responsibility as a member of 
the State Board of Education and is also one of the of the New Orleans city commissioners.

He was born at New Orleans, in l887, son of Theodore P. and Sophia (Lupp) Hall.  
The circumstances of his youth were such that his formal schooling ended with the 
seventh grade in the public schools. Since then his education has been a gradual 
process of private study and the thriving force of his own ambition to neglect no 
opportunity that might better qualify hum for the carrying on of his business.  He 
studied mathematics in the Sophia Wright night schools, pursued correspondence 
courses in bookkeeping and business administration with the Alexander Hamilton 
Institute; for over two years studied economics and advertising in the School of 
Business Administration of Tulane University, and at the present time is attending 
night classes at the Loyola University Law School.

Mr. Hall when a boy went to work at the New Orleans plant and offices of the Talmadge 
Panama Rice Milling Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in New Orleans.  
He has been with this concern in consecutive stages of promotion until he is now 
president, sole owner and active manager.

In the fall of 1924 Governor Fuqua appointed Mr. Hall a member of the Louisiana State 
Board of Education.  His position in business affairs and his interest in education in 
general eminently qualify him for membership on this board.  At the New Orleans municipal 
election of February 4, 1925, he was elected a member of the Board of City Commissioners,
taking office in May, 1925.  He is one of the four city commissioners which, together 
with the mayor, constitutes the municipal government of New Orleans.  He was elected on 
the Martin Behrman ticket, Mr. Hall married Miss Edna Waldo, and they have one daughter, 
Esther.

NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white photograph/drawing of the subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 373-374, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.