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|birth_place=Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
|birth_place=Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA
|birth_date=December 11, 1922
|birth_date=December 11, 1922
|death_date=September 4, 1985 (aged 62)
|death_date=September 4, 1985<br>(aged 62)
|death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]
|death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]
|residence=West Monroe, Ouachita Parish
|residence=West Monroe, Ouachita Parish
'''Shady Robert Wall''' (December 11, 1922 – September 4, 1985) was a [[banker]] and philanthropist from West Monroe in his native Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], who served nonconsecutively as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948 to 1956 and again from 1968 to 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref>
'''Shady Robert Wall''' (December 11, 1922 – September 4, 1985) was a [[banker]] and philanthropist from West Monroe in his native Ouachita Parish, [[Louisiana]], who served nonconsecutively as a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1948 to 1956 and again from 1968 to 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016|publisher=house.louisiana.gov|accessdate=May 22, 2014}}</ref>
Wall is remembered for his colorful dress, speeding in his Rolls Royce, flamboyant personality, gifts to local charity, and his penchant for packing a pistol in his boot holster. He was also an iron-fisted chairman of the House Retirement Committee in his later legislative tenure.
Wall is remembered for his colorful dress, speeding in his Rolls Royce, flamboyant personality, gifts to local charity, and his penchant for packing a pistol in his boot holster. He was also an iron-fisted chairman of the House Retirement Committee in his later legislative tenure.
==As a legislator==
==As a legislator==
Wall's legislative tenure corresponded with the administrations of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], [[Robert F. Kennon]], [[John J. McKeithen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], and [[David C. Treen]]. Of the governors between 1948 and 1984, Wall served under all except [[Jimmie Davis]].
Wall's legislative tenure corresponded with the administrations of [[Governor]]s [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], [[Robert F. Kennon]], [[John J. McKeithen]], [[Edwin Edwards]], and [[David C. Treen]]. Of the governors between 1948 and 1984, Wall served under all except [[Jimmie Davis]].