Lawrence Washington Hall (c. 1819January 18, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a

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from Ohio from 1857 to 1859.

Early life and career

Born in

Lake County, Ohio Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,603. The county seat is Painesville. The county was established on March 6, 1840, from land given by Cuyahoga and Geauga Counties. Its name is der ...

, Hall graduated from Hudson College in 1839 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and began to practice in

Bucyrus, Ohio Bucyrus ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Crawford County, located in northern Ohio approximately 28 miles (45 km) west of Mansfield and southeast of Toledo. The population was 11,684 at the 2020 census. The c ...

, from 1844. He served as prosecuting attorney of Crawford County from 1845-1851; then as judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1852 - 1857.

Congress

Hall was elected as a

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to the

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, serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859.

Later career and death

He subsequently resumed his law practice, having lost the reelection bid. In 1862, during the Civil War, he was imprisoned for alleged disloyalty to the Union. He died in

, on January 18, 1863, and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

Sources

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