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George Cleveland Hall (22 February 1864, Ypsilanti, – 17 June 1930,
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) was an American physician who became a prominent humanitarian activist. He headed the
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in
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of which he went on to become vice-president. In 1915 he was a founding member of the
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. He was educated in the Chicago public schools, and in 1882 attended Lincoln University,
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from which he graduated in 1886. He then attended Bennett Medical College, graduating with a medical degree in 1888. He worked at the Provident Hospital and established his medical practice in Chicago in 1900. In 1919 he was appointed to the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hall, George Cleveland 1864 births 1930 deaths African-American physicians People from Ypsilanti, Michigan 20th-century African-American people