This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LornaRF Surnames: Hall Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.hall/14351/mb.ashx Message Board Post: EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES [With Portraits] of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor's Staff, and Senators and Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Published Annually. Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882. Pg. 155 JOHN M. HALL, Representative for Windham, Windham County: Of Windham, the Speaker of the present House, is an exceptionally brilliant and able young lawyer, and his elevation to the speakership is a deserved compliment to his talents and a recognition of valuable party service. His legislative experience covers a wider field, perhaps, than that of any other man of his age in the State, the present being his fifth term in the House, the preceding terms having been in the years 1870, 1871, 1872, and 1881. During these sessions he was a member of the Committees on Fisheries, Contested Elections, Constitutional Amendments, Railroads (of all which he was Chairman), Judiciary (twice), Establishment of Senatorial District, and, in 1871, of the joint select committee which canvassed the vote for governor and other State officers, in view of alleged election frauds at New Haven, and upon the strength of whose report the General Assembly declared the Hon. Marshal Jewell Governor of the State. Mr. Hall is a native of the borough of Willima! ntic, and was forty years of age in October. After graduating from Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., in 1862, he entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1866. Immediately after leaving college he began the study of law, entering for that purpose a prominent law office in New York city, and at the same time taking the regular course at the Columbia Law School. In 1868 he was admitted to the Bars of New York city and Connecticut, and in the spring of 1869 began the practice of his profession in Willimantic, where he has since resided. He is a member of the State Bar Association, and one of the Executive Committee of that organization. In his own town Mr. Hall has been Registrar of Voters, Acting School Visitor, Justice of the Peace, and Clerk of the Court of Probate. He was a Corporator and has been a Director of the Dime Savings Bank of Willimantic, and is active in promoting the progress and interests of the borough. His first vote was cast for Ab! raham Lincoln, and he has since been one of the most active of Republi cans, giving the party at all times the cordial support of his voice and pen. In 1876 he was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Cincinnati, and in the last national campaign he organized and was President of the Garfield and Arthur Club of Willimantic. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.