William Pike Hall, Sr.

Life and career Hall was born in Mansfield, Louisiana, the son of W. P. Hall, a state district judge, and Ida Jack. He was the nephew of George W. Jack, a United States federal judge, and was the cousin of Wellborn Jack, a Louisiana representative, and Whitfield Jack, a United States Army Reserve major general. He attended Sewanee: The University of the South and Tulane University. He served in the United States Army during World War I, which after his discharge, he attended Columbia Law School, earning his LL.B. degree in 1922. he worked as an attorney in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Death Hall died on December 16, 1945, in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at the age of 49.