Benton Jay Hall

Benton Jay Hall (* January 13, 1835 in Mount Vernon, Ohio; † January 5th 1894 in Burlington, Iowa) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1840, Benton Hall came with his parents to what was then Iowa Territory. His father, J. C. Hall would later become a judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa. Hall studied at Knox College in Galesburg (Illinois ) and then to 1855 at Miami University in Oxford ( Ohio). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1857 admitted to the bar he began in Burlington to work in his new profession. In 1873 he applied unsuccessfully for a judgeship on the Supreme Court of Iowa.

Hall was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1872 and 1873 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa; 1882-1885 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1884 he was the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Moses A. McCoid on March 4, 1885. But since he lost to John Gear already at the next election in 1886, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1887.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Benton Hall was appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland patent agents of the federal government. This post he held between 1887 and 1889. Thereafter Hall again worked as a lawyer. He died on 5 January 1894 in Burlington and was also buried there.