Joshua G. Hall

Joshua Gilman Hall ( born November 5, 1828 in Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire, † October 31, 1898 in Dover, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Hall attended the Gilmanton Academy, and then to 1851 Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1855 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Wakefield and Dover. Between 1862 and 1874 he was district attorney in Strafford County. Hall was a member of the Republican Party and in the years 1866 and 1867 Mayor of Dover. Between 1871 and 1872 he was a member of the Senate of New Hampshire and in 1874 the House of Representatives of the State. From 1874 to 1879 he was United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire.

1878 Hall was the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank Jones on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. After the end of his activities in the Federal Capital Hall again worked as a lawyer. He died on October 31, 1898 in Dover, and was also buried there.

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