William Pike

Background

Hall was born in Mansfield, the seat of government of DeSoto Parish located south of Shreveport, the youngest of four children of Judge William Pike Hall (1851-1928), a native of Iredell County in west central North Carolina.

Education

Sewanee: The University of the South.

Career

Judge Hall presided over DeSoto and Red River parishes. The judge"s first wife and Pike"s mother, Lillian Ida Jack (1862-1898) of Natchitoches, died when young Pike was two years of age. The judge then married the former Elise Tally (died 1954), and they are interred together at Greenwood Cemetery in Shreveport.

In 1900, Hall moved to Shreveport, where he was in time educated at Methodist-affiliated Centenary College and thereafter the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, and the Columbia Law School in New York City.

In 1922, he received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Columbia and was admitted that year to the Louisiana Barometer He was affiliated with Kappa Alpha Order social fraternity and the legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi.

In 1917 and 1918, Hall was a private with the United States Army ambulance corps in France. He was a captain in the Judge Advocate General"s Corps during World World War II but was discharged for a physical disability.

He sat on the local Selective Service Board.

He was affiliated with the veterans organizations, the Forty and Eight, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was affiliated with the Masonic lodge, the Shriners, and the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce. He served on the executive committee of the Louisiana Civil Service League.

From 1924 to 1932, Hall represented Caddo and DeSoto parishes in the Louisiana State Senate during the administrations of Governors Henry Fuqua, Oramel H. Simpson, and Huey Pierce Long, Junior.

One of his Senate successors was the Shreveport attorney Cecil Morgan, a leader of the anti-Long forces in the chamber. In 1925, Hall married the former Hazel Tucker, daughter of Doctor and Mistress

C. M. Tucker of Haughton in southeastern Bossier Parish. The couple had two children, Hazel, later Hazel Schaffer, and Pike Hall, Junior., a subsequent judge who at the time of his father"s death was attending C. East. Byrd High School in Shreveport.

Hall died in a Shreveport sanitarium at the age of forty-nine from complications of a cerebral stroke.

He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.

Membership

He was a member of the Shreveport Country Club and The Boston Club of New Orleans. He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Shreveport.

Connections

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