Hal B. Burton was an American state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas in the

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in 1887. He was a Republican and served one term. In 1880 he was a farmer, and in the 1890s a merchant and saloon manager. In 1908, he was listed as a porter, in the city directory of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and may have died there between 1910 and 1920. His third wife was documented as a sower. He was the great-great grandfather of actor LeVar Burton. On a 2024 episode of the

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program,

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, featuring LaVar Burton, it was noted that Hal Burton was described in one contemporary newspaper account as a "gay lothario" and accused of being a womanizer.

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Politicians from Jefferson County, Arkansas Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives 19th-century American legislators African-American state legislators in Arkansas Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Arkansas-politician-stub

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