Robert S. Hall

Robert Samuel Hall (born March 10, 1879 in Williamsburg , Covington County , Mississippi , † June 10, 1941 in Arlington , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Hall attended public schools in Williamsburg and Hattiesburg . He then worked as a teacher in Hancock County in 1894 . In 1898 he graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson . From 1895 to 1900 and again between 1920 and 1925 he was the owner and editor of the newspaper "Hattiesburg Citizen". After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1900, he began to work in his new profession in Hattiesburg.

Hall was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1906 to 1908 he was a member of the Mississippi Senate . In 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . Between 1910 and 1912 he was a district attorney in Forrest County and from 1912 to 1918 he was a district attorney in the Twelfth Judicial District of Mississippi State. He was then a judge in the same district between 1918 and 1929.

In 1928, Hall was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Thomas Webber Wilson on March 4, 1929 . After a re-election in 1930, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 , which were overshadowed by the global economic crisis of those years. In his second term in Congress, Hall chaired the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation , which dealt with issues such as water rights and irrigation.

In the 1932 elections, he was not nominated by his party for another legislative term. His mandate then went to William Meyers Colmer , who exercised it from 1933 to 1963 as the last representative of the sixth electoral district. After the end of his service in Congress Robert Hall was employed from 1933 until his death in the legal department of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington.

Web links

• Robert S. Hall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert S. Hall in the database of Find a Grave (English)