California State Officials Biographies 1911 SAMUEL PIKE HALL Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Associate Justice, First Appellate District. SAMUEL PIKE HALL (Republican) was born in Monterey County, California, March 3, 1854, and received a common and high school education; he then studied law, and took up the practice of that profession in Oakland; served as Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County from 1878 to 1882, when he was elected District Attorney, to which position he was reelected in 1884 and again in 1886; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1896, and reelected in 1902; in April, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the First District, elected to the same position, November 6, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term. Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911 Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913