Osee M. Hall

Hosea Matson Hall ( born September 10, 1847 in Conneaut, Ohio; † November 26, 1914 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hosea Hall attended the public schools of his home in Ohio and Hiram College. In 1868, he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Red Wing (Minnesota) to work in his new profession.

Politically Hall was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1885 and 1887 he sat in the Senate from Minnesota. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1891, the successor of Darwin Hall of the Republican Party. After a re-election in 1892 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions.

In the elections of 1894 Hall was defeated by Republican Joel Heatwole. He then worked again as a lawyer. From 1907 until his death in 1914 Hosea Hall was a member of the Tax Commission of the State of Minnesota. He died on 26 November 1914 in Saint Paul and was buried in Red Wing.

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