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. ==Sources==