Obed Hall

Obed Hall (born December 23, 1757 in Raynham , Bristol County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † April 1, 1828 in Bartlett , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Via Madbury , Obed Hall came to Bartlett, New Hampshire, where he worked in agriculture. In his new home he became an innkeeper. In 1790 he was a land surveyor in road construction. It was then that he began a political career. Hall joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1791 and 1823 he was a member of the Bartlett parish council several times. Hall was an MP in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1802 and 1803 . He was then appointed as an appeals judge by Governor John Taylor Gilman .

In the congressional elections of 1810, which were held nationwide, Hall was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the third mandate of New Hampshire . There he took over on March 4, 1811, succeeding William Hale of the Federalist Party . After only one term in Congress , he had to surrender his mandate back to Hale on March 3, 1813. During his tenure in the House of Representatives, the British-American War of 1812 began .

After his time in Congress, Hall remained politically active. He was part of the Bartlett parish council. In 1819 he was elected to the New Hampshire Senate. Obed Hall died on April 1, 1828 in his home town of Bartlett.

Web links

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

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