Leonard Wood Hall (October 2, 1900 – June 2, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a

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from

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from 1939 to 1952.

Early life and education

Hall was the son of Franklyn Herbert and Mary Anne (née Garvin) Hall. He was born at

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, the manor house of future President

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, near

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. Franklyn Hall was Roosevelt's

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and White House librarian. Hall attended public schools and graduated from the law department of

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in 1920. He was admitted to the

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in 1922 and commenced practice in New York City.

Family

He married Gladys Dowsey, the daughter of local Republican political leader, on May 10, 1934, in Oyster Bay. She had two children from a previous marriage.

Political career

He was a member of the

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(Nassau Co., 2nd D.) in

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and

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; Sheriff of Nassau County from 1929 to 1931; and again a member of the State Assembly in

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into ...

and

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. He was a delegate to the

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...

and

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Congress

Hall was elected as a Republican to the 76th, 77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st and

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es, holding office from January 3, 1939, to December 31, 1952, when he resigned to take office as

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of Nassau County. He resigned that office to become Chairman of the

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, serving from 1953 to 1957.

Later career

He was President Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal representative at opening of the

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in April 1958, and resumed the practice of law in Garden City and New York City as senior partner in the firm of Hall Casey Dickler & Brady. Later that year he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for

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, but withdrew in favor of

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, who went on to defeat incumbent

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in the

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. In 1964, after Republican presidential nominee

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named his friend of nearly three decades,

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, as the national campaign manager, a group of party establishment donors urged Goldwater to replace the inexperienced Kitchel with Hall, but Goldwater stood behind his initial choice.

Death

Hall resided in

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and in 1979 died in Glen Cove. Interment was in Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church ( Episcopal), Laurel Hollow. Buried along with Hall in Memorial Cemetery are a number of other American celebrities, government officials, and political figures of the 20th century, including

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, William S. Paley, and

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References

External links

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The Political GraveyardRecords of the Office of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (Leonard W. Hall), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
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