Benton Hall | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromIowa's1st district | |
| In office March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 | |
| Preceded by | Moses A. McCoid |
| Succeeded by | John H. Gear |
| Member of theIowa Senate from the9th district | |
| In office January 9, 1882 – March 3, 1885 | |
| Preceded by | John Patterson |
| Succeeded by | William Dodge |
| Member of theIowa House of Representatives from the2nd district | |
| In office January 8, 1872 – January 11, 1874 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
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| Born | (1835-01-13)January 13, 1835 Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 1894(1894-01-05) (aged 58) Burlington, Iowa, U.S |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Miami University |
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Benton Jay "Ben" Hall (January 13, 1835 – January 5, 1894) was a one-termDemocraticU.S. Representative fromIowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
Born inMount Vernon, Ohio, Hall moved in December 1840 with his parents (futureIowa Supreme Court justice J.C. Hall and his wife) toBurlington inIowa Territory.[1] He attendedKnox College,Galesburg, Illinois, and graduated fromMiami University,Oxford, Ohio, in 1855. He studied law with his father, wasadmitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced in Burlington.[1] He was a member of theIowa House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873.[2] In 1873 he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Iowa Supreme Court.[3] He was elected to a four-year term in theIowa Senate in 1881.[1][2]
The following year (1882) Hall won the democratic nomination for election to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House, but was defeated by the incumbent Republican,Moses A. McCoid.[4] However, in 1884, Hall ran again for the 1st district seat and prevailed, the first Democrat to take that seat since the outbreak of theCivil War. He served in theForty-ninth Congress. However, in 1886 he was defeated in the general election by former Iowa Governor (and future U.S. Senator)John H. Gear. Hall served in Congress from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887.
Soon after his defeat, he was appointedCommissioner of Patents byPresident Cleveland and served from April 12, 1887, to March 31, 1889, and afterwards resumed the practice of law.
He died in Burlington on January 5, 1894. He was interred inAspen Grove Cemetery.
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