Hiland Hall (July 20, 1795 – December 18, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician who served as 25th
governor of Vermont
The governor of Vermont is the head of government of Vermont. The officeholder is elected in even-numbered years by direct voting for a term of 2 years. Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every ...
and a
United States representative
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.
Biography
Hall was born in
Bennington, Vermont
Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. It is one of two shire towns (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. As of the 2020 US Census, the population was 15,333. Bennington is the most populous t ...
. He attended the common schools, studied law with Bennington attorney Marshall Carter, and was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Bennington. He married Dolly Tuttle Davis on October 27, 1818, and they had seven children; Marshall Carter (known as M. Carter); Eliza Davis; Henry Davis; Hiland Hubbard; Nathaniel Blatchley; Laura Van Der Spiegle; John Van Der Spiegle; and Charles.
Laura was the wife of businessman and lawyer
Trenor W. Park. Elizabeth Hall Park, the daughter of Laura Hall and Trenor Park, was the wife of
Governor
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John G. McCullough
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.
Hiland Hall originally owned the land where the
Park-McCullough Historic House now stands, and sold it to Trenor Park in the 1860s so Park could have a home constructed on it. The Park-McCullough House was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1972.
Career
Hall was a member of the
Vermont House of Representatives
The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The House comprises 150 members, with each member representing around 4,100 citizens. Representatives ar ...
in 1827. He served as clerk of
Bennington County
Bennington County is a county in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,347. The shire towns (county seats) are jointly Bennington ("The Southshire") and Manchester ("The Northshire"), and the largest municipal ...
in 1828 and 1829. He was the county
state’s attorney from 1828 to 1831.
Hall was elected as an
Anti-Jacksonian
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to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Jonathan Hunt. He was re-elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and elected as a
Whig to the
Twenty-fifth through
Twenty-seventh Congress
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es 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 from 1843 to 1846. He was a judge of the
Vermont Supreme Court
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The Court ...
from 1846 to 1850. He was the Second
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:''superintend ...
from November 27, 1850 to September 10, 1851. He served as
United States land commissioner for California from 1851 to 1854, and then returned to
Vermont
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.
Hall was the
25th Governor of Vermont from 1858 to 1860. He was also a member of the
Peace Conference of 1861
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held in an effort to prevent the start of the
American Civil War
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.
Death and legacy
Hall died in
Springfield, Massachusetts, and is interred in the Old Bennington Cemetery. The Hiland Hall School in Bennington is named for him.
References
External links
The Hiland Hall School*
Govtrack US Congress
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1795 births
1885 deaths
People from Bennington, Vermont
Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court
Members of the Vermont House of Representatives
Governors of Vermont
Vermont National Republicans
Vermont Republicans
Vermont lawyers
Burials in Vermont
Republican Party governors of Vermont
National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont
19th-century American politicians
State's attorneys in Vermont
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers