Darwin Hall

Darwin Scott Hall ( born January 23, 1844 Kenosha County, Wisconsin, † February 23, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Drew Already in 1847 Darwin Hall with his parents to Waukaw in Winnebago County. 1856 the family moved to Grand Rapids on. Hall attended the public schools in these places as well as a school in Elgin (Illinois ) and the Markam 's Academy in Milwaukee.

During the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry regiment from Wisconsin. After the war he settled down in 1866 near Birch Cooley in Minnesota. There he first worked in agriculture. Then he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. From 1869 to 1873 he was auditor in Renville County; 1973 to 1878 he was Clerk of the District Court. In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota. In the same year he founded the newspaper " Renville Times ," which he published himself. From 1878 to 1886 Hall was employed by the Federal Cadastral Office in Benson. In 1886 he was elected to the Minnesota Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Hall was the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John L. MacDonald on March 4, 1889. As he said Democrats Hosea M. Hall was defeated in the elections of 1890, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1891. Between 1891 and 1893, and again in 1897, Hall was chairman of the Chippewa Indian Commission. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in part, was nominated to the President Benjamin Harrison for a second term.

From 1905 to 1910 Darwin Hall was on the board of the Agricultural Society of Minnesota. In 1906 he was elected again in the state Senate. He also worked again in agriculture. He died on 23 February 1919 near the village of Olivia.