James Knox Polk Hall Explained

James K. P. Hall
Image Name:James Knox Polk Hall (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
State1:Pennsylvania
District1:28th
Term Start1:March 4, 1899
Term End1:November 29, 1902
Preceded1:William Carlile Arnold
Succeeded1:Joseph C. Sibley
Office2:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term2:1902–1914
Birth Date:30 September 1844
Birth Place:Milesburg, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Tampa, Florida
Party:Democratic

James Knox Polk Hall (September 30, 1844 – January 5, 1915) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

James K. P. Hall was born in Milesburg, Pennsylvania. He was educated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He was elected district attorney of Elk County, Pennsylvania in 1867, and reelected in 1870 and 1873. He retired from the practice of law in 1883 to engage in the coal, lumber, and railroad businesses as well as banking.

Hall was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served until his resignation. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1902 to 1914. He died in Tampa, Florida, in 1915. Interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Ridgway, Pennsylvania.

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