Hal B. Burton was an American state legislator in Arkansas.
[4] In 1880 he was a farmer; in the 1890s, he worked as a merchant and saloon manager.
In 1908, he was listed as a porter, in the city directory of Pine Bluff, Arkansas,[3] and may have died there between 1910 and 1920.
He was the great-great grandfather of actor LeVar Burton.
[5] On a 2024 episode of the PBS program, Finding Your Roots, featuring LeVar Burton, it was noted that Hal Burton was described in one contemporary newspaper account as a "gay lothario" and accused of being a womanizer.