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Albert Hall Whitfield  (born October 12, 1849, in Aberdeen, Mississippi; died November 12, 1918, in Jackson, Mississippi) was an American scholar, attorney, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Whitfield was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, the son of Robert Donnell Whitfield (1826 - 1890).

From 1872 to 1874 Whitfield was Adjunct Professor of Greek at the University of Mississippi, later being appointed Professor of Law.

In 1894 Governor John M. Stone appointed Hall as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Hall would serve as chief justice of the court from 1900 until 1908.

Whitfield is buried in Cedarlawn Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.