Hiland Hall - Career

Career

Hall was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1827. He served as a clerk of Bennington County, Vermont in 1828 and 1829. He was the State’s attorney from 1828 to 1831.

Hall was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Hunt. He was re-elected 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 not a candidate for renomination in 1842.

Hall served as the State Bank Commissioner from 1843 to 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 from 1851 to 1854 and then returned to Vermont.

Hall was the 25th Governor of Vermont from 1858 to 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.