Joshua Gilman Hall | |
State: | New Hampshire |
District: | 1st |
Term Start: | March 4, 1879 |
Term End: | March 3, 1883 |
Preceded: | Frank Jones |
Succeeded: | Martin Alonzo Haynes |
Office2: | Mayor of Dover, New Hampshire |
Term Start2: | 1866 |
Term End2: | 1867 |
Preceded2: | William E. Estes |
Succeeded2: | Eli V. Brewster |
Office3: | Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Term3: | 1874 |
Office4: | Member of the New Hampshire Senate |
Term4: | 1871-1872 |
Birth Date: | November 5, 1828 |
Birth Place: | Wakefield, New Hampshire |
Death Date: | October 31, 1898 (aged 69) |
Death Place: | Dover, New Hampshire |
Resting Place: | Pine Hill Cemetery |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Susan E Bigelow Hall |
Parents: | Joshua G. Hall Betsey Plumer |
Children: | Grace B Hall Cook Susan Gertrude Hall Sawyer Dwight Hall |
Alma Mater: | Dartmouth College |
Joshua Gilman Hall (November 5, 1828 – October 31, 1898) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Born in Wakefield, Carroll Counthy, New Hampshire, Hall attended Gilmanton Academy, and in 1851 was graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover. He studied law with Daniel M. Christie and was admitted to the bar in 1855, practicing in Wakefield and Dover, New Hampshire.[1]
Hall served as solicitor of Strafford County, 1862–1874, and as mayor of Dover in 1866 and 1867. He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1871 and 1872, and he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1874. He was the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire from April 1874 to February 1879.
Elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, Hall was United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883).[2] Subsequently, he resumed the practice of law.
Hall died in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire on October 31, 1898 (age 69 years, 360 days). He is interred at Pine Hill Cemetery in Dover.
On November 16, 1861, Hall married S. Lizzie Bigelow and they had three children, Grace, Susan, and Dwight.[3]