Hiland Hall

Hiland Hall ( born July 20, 1795 in Bennington, Vermont, † December 18, 1885 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician.

After attending school and a law degree in 1819 Hall was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in his native town of Bennington. Politically, he was active from 1827, when he was elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont. From 1828 to 1829 he was in Bennington County as chief of administration ( county clerk ) operates; In 1828, he also was a prosecutor in this county, which he remained until 1831.

1832 Hiland Hall was chosen for the National Republican party in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he took the place of the late Jonathan Hunt. He successfully defended his seat four times, but changed during this time of the disintegrating National Republicans for the Whig party. During his last term in office from 1841 to 1843 he was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. In 1842, he did not present himself for re-election.

As a result, Hiland Hall held various public offices. He was from 1843 to 1846 worked as a state bank commissioner; after he was until 1850 a judge at the Vermont Supreme Court From 1850 to 1851 he held a leading position in the U.S. Treasury, before he held the post of commissioner for public land in California until 1854.

In the active policy of the now impersonated to the Republicans Hiland Hall returned again in 1858, when he was elected governor of his home state of Vermont. After he resigned from this office in 1860, to Hall, who was an opponent of slavery, held in 1861 in a Washington Friedenskovent, who tried in vain to avert the Civil War involved.

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