Nathan K. Hall

Nathan Kelsey Hall ( born March 28, 1810 in Marcellus, New York, † March 2, 1874 in Buffalo, New York) was an American lawyer and politician of the Whig party.

Life

Hall began his career as a shoemaker and farmer, but then studied law in Buffalo. He graduated acquaintance with the later U.S. President Millard Fillmore, for whom he worked as a legal assistant in the sequence; later both firm partners were, after Hall had been added to the Bar in 1832.

Public offices

Nathan Hall was elected in Buffalo and Erie County in numerous public offices. In 1846 he became a member of the State Parliament of New York; In the same year he moved to the Whig party in the U.S. House of Representatives. After the end of this Parliament, he was, however, not re- nominated as a candidate.

In July 1850 he was appointed after the death of Zachary Taylor by the Vice President to President Millard Fillmore ascended to the United States Postmaster General. He held until August 1852 this office; he headed in that time the Interior Ministry during a short vacancy.

He resigned from his ministerial office to be a judge at the Federal District Report for the North District of the State of New York. This he remained until his death in March 1874, he was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo.; located in the immediate vicinity of the grave of his good friend, Millard Fillmore, who died just six days after Hall.