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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VermontHALL, Hiland
(1795—1885)
HALL, Hiland, a Representative from Vermont; born in Bennington, Vt., July 20, 1795; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Bennington; member of the State house of representatives in 1827; clerk of Benton County in 1828 and 1829; State’s attorney 1828-1831; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Hunt; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from January 1, 1833, to March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; State bank commissioner 1843-1846; judge of the State supreme court 1846-1850; Second Comptroller of the Treasury from November 27, 1850, to September 10, 1851; United States land commissioner for California 1851-1854; returned to Vermont; Governor of Vermont 1858-1860; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in Springfield, Mass., December 18, 1885; interment in Bennington Center Cemetery, Bennington, Vt.
Hall, Henry Davis. Memoir of Hon. Hiland Hall, LL.D.
Boston: Press of D. Clapp and Son, 1887.
Hall, Hiland. The capture of Ticonderoga, in 1775: A paper read before the Vermont Historical Society, at Montpelier, Tuesday, October 19th, 1869
. Montpelier [Vt.]: Polands’ Steam Print., 1869.
———. The history of Vermont, from its discovery to its admission into the Union in 1791
. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1868.
———. Remarks of the Hon. Hiland Hall made in the House of Representatives, May 5, 1834: On presenting a memorial from Windham County, Vermont, on the subject of the removal of the public depositories
. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1834.
———. Vindication of volume first of the Collections of the Vermont Historical Society from the attacks of the New York Historical Magazine
. Montpelier: J.& J. Poland’s Steam Press, 1871.
———. Why the early inhabitants of Vermont disclaimed the jurisdiction of New York, and established an independent government. An address delivered before the New-York Historical Society, December 4th, 1860
. Bennington, Vt.: C. A. Pierce, printers, 1872. Reprint, 1884
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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