Benton Jay Hall

Benton Jay Hall (born January 13, 1835 in Mount Vernon , Ohio , †  January 5, 1894 in Burlington , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1840 Benton Hall came to what was then Iowa with his parents . His father, JC Hall, would later become a judge on the Iowa Supreme Court. Hall studied at Knox College in Galesburg ( Illinois ) and then until 1855 at Miami University in Oxford (Ohio). After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1857, he began to work in Burlington in his new profession. In 1873 he ran unsuccessfully for a judge's position on the Iowa Supreme Court.

Hall was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the House of Representatives from Iowa in 1872 and 1873 ; between 1882 and 1885 he was a member of the State Senate . In the congressional elections of 1884 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Republican Moses A. McCoid on March 4, 1885 . But since he lost to John Gear in the next election in 1886 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1887 .

After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Benton Hall was appointed patent agent of the federal government by US President Grover Cleveland . He held this office between 1887 and 1889. Then Hall worked again as a lawyer. He died on January 5, 1894 in Burlington and was buried there.

Web links

• Benton Jay Hall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benton Jay Hall in the database of Find a Grave (English)