Hiland Hall
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Hiland Hall (July 20, 1795 - December 18, 1885) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Bennington, Vermont. He attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Bennington.
Hall was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1827. He served as a clerk of Benton County, Vermont in 1828 and 1829. He was the State’s attorney 1828-1831. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Hunt. He was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from January 1, 1833, to March 3, 1843. While in Congress he served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-seventh Congress). He was was not a candidate for renomination in 1842.
Hall served as the state bank commissioner 1843-1846. He was judge of the Vermont Supreme Court 1846-1850. He was the Second Comptroller of the Treasury from November 27, 1850, to September 10, 1851. He served as United States land commissioner for California 1851-1854 and then returned to Vermont. He was Governor of Vermont 1858-1860. He was also a member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. He died in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1885. He was buried in Bennington Center Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont.
The Hiland Hall School in Vermont is named after Hiland Hall.
