Robert S. Hall

Robert Samuel Hall ( born March 10, 1879 in Williamsburg, Covington County, Mississippi; † 10 June 1941 in Arlington, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Hall attended the public schools in Williamsburg and Hattiesburg. He then worked as a teacher in 1894 in Hancock County. In 1898 he graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. From 1895 to 1900, and again 1920-1925 he was the owner and editor of the newspaper " Hattiesburg Citizen ". After studying law and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Hattiesburg to work in his new profession.

Hall was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1906 to 1908 he was a member of the Senate of Mississippi. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Between 1910 and 1912 he was a prosecutor in Forrest County and from 1912 to 1918 he was district attorney in the Twelfth Judicial District of the State of Mississippi. Within the district, he was then between 1918-1929 Judge.

1928 Hall was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Thomas Webber Wilson on March 4, 1929. After a re-election in 1930 he was able to complete up to March 3, 1933 two terms in Congress, who were overshadowed by the global economic crisis of those years. In his second term in Congress Hall was chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, which dealt among other things with issues of water rights and irrigation.

In the 1932 elections, he was not nominated by his party for another term of office. His mandate then went to William Meyers Colmer, who held it from 1933 to 1963 as the last representative of the sixth constituency. After the end of his activity in Congress Robert Hall was employed from 1933 until his death in the legal department of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington.

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