Obed Hall

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Obed Hall (December 23, 1757 – April 1, 1828) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.

He was born in Raynham, Massachusetts. He later moved to Madbury, New Hampshire and then to Upper Bartlett, New Hampshire and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Subsequently, he became an innkeeper.

Hall served a surveyor of highways, was a member of the board of selectmen, served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor John Taylor Gilman.

Hall was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811–March 3, 1813). He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1819. He died in Bartlett in 1828 and was buried in Garland Ridge Cemetery. Later, he was reburied in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine.

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• Obed Hall at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress