Uriel Sebree Hall

Uriel Sebree Hall

Uriel Sebree Hall (born April 12, 1852 in Huntsville , Randolph County , Missouri , †  December 30, 1932 in Columbia , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Uriel Hall was the son of Congressman William Augustus Hall (1815-1888) and a nephew of Governor Willard Preble Hall (1820-1882), who also represented the State of Missouri in Congress . He initially enjoyed a private education and then studied until 1873 at Mount Pleasant College in his hometown of Huntsville. After that he worked in school himself. He became a school councilor in Moberly and then founded a school in Prairie Hill which he directed for some time. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1879, he began to practice in Moberly. In 1885 he gave up this job to work in agriculture.

Politically, Hall was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Charles H. Mansur on March 4, 1893 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . In 1896 he declined to run again.

Between 1897 and 1901 Hall was President of Pritchett College , Glasgow . He then moved to Columbia, where he founded the Hall West Point-Annapolis Coaching School in 1918 . Between 1918 and 1930 he directed this school; then he went into retirement. Uriel Hall died in Columbia on December 30, 1932 and was buried in Moberly.

Web links

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

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