City Council
See also List of Los Angeles municipal election returns, 1925, 1927 and 1929
Hall was elected to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 11 in 1925 and was reelected in 1927. The 11th District originally encompassed an area south of Downtown, bounded on the north by Sixth Street, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by Hoover Avenue and on the east approximately by San Pedro Street].
He, along with Clifford W. Henderson and Henry G. Bakes, "persuaded the city to lease a 640-acre bean and barley patch then known as Mines Field," which became the Los Angeles International Airport.
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