Osee M. Hall

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Osee Matson Hall was a U.S. House Representative from Minnesota.

Born in Conneaut, Ohio on September 10, 1847. He attended the local public schools and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1868.

He studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Red Wing, Minnesota. He was a member of the Minnesota Senate (1885 – 1887); elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

He resumed the practice of law. Was a member of the Minnesota State Tax Commission from 1907 until his death in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 26, 1914, aged 67; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, Minnesota.

Preceded by: Darwin Hall

U.S. Representative from the 3rd Congressional District of Minnesota 1891 – 1895

Succeeded by: Joel Heatwole