Chapin Hall

Chapin Hall ( born July 12, 1816 in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York, † September 12, 1879 in Jamestown, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chapin Hall attended the public schools of his home and then the Jamestown Academy. Around the year 1841 he moved to Pine Grove, today Russell in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the lumber business and trade. Since 1851 he lived in Warren, where he was also active in the banking industry. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Hall was in the 24th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Lisle Gillis on March 4, 1859. Since he resigned in 1860 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1861. This was overshadowed by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Chapin Hall worked in the woodworking trade in the cities Louisville (Kentucky), Fond du Lac (Wisconsin ) and Newark (New Jersey). He later worked in Jamestown in the textile industry. There he is on September 12, 1879 and passed away.