- Hiland Hall
Infobox Governor
name=Hiland Hall
caption=
order=25th
office= Governor of Vermont
term_start= 1858
term_end= 1860
lieutenant=Burnam Martin
predecessor=Ryland Fletcher
successor=Erastus Fairbanks
birth_date=July 20 ,1795
birth_place=Bennington, Vermont
death_date=December 18 ,1885
death_place=Springfield, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession= Lawyer / Judge / Politician
party= Republican
footnotes=Hiland Hall (
July 20 ,1795 -December 18 ,1885 ) was aUnited States Representative fromVermont . He was born inBennington, Vermont . He attended the common schools, studiedlaw , and was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Bennington.Hall was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives in 1827. He served as a clerk ofBenton County, Vermont in 1828 and 1829. He was the State’s attorney 1828-1831. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJonathan Hunt . He was 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. While in Congress he served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-seventh Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842.Hall served as the state bank commissioner 1843-1846. He was judge of the
Vermont Supreme Court 1846-1850. He was the SecondComptroller of the Treasury from November 27, 1850, to September 10, 1851. He served as United States land commissioner forCalifornia 1851-1854 and then returned to Vermont. He wasGovernor of Vermont 1858-1860. He was also a member of the peace convention of 1861 held inWashington, D.C. , in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. He died inSpringfield, Massachusetts in 1885. He was buried in Bennington Center Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont.The Hiland Hall School in Vermont is named after Hiland Hall.
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* [http://www.hilandhallschool.org/ The Hiland Hall School]
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