US Con Hall, William Augustus - U.S. Congressman, MO

William Augustus Hall
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Born: October 15, 1815

Birthplace: Portland, Maine

Father: Captain John Hancock Hall 1781 – 1841
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)​

Mother: Statira Annie Preble 1788 – 1854
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)​

Wife: Octavia Sebree 1827 – 1883
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)​

Children:

1st​ Lt. William Preble Hall 1848 – 1927​
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​
U.S. Congressman Uriel Sebree Hall 1852 – 1932​
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)​
Willard Cotta Hall 1854 – 1923​
(Buried: Huntsville City Cemetery, Huntsville, Missouri)​
Octavia Hall Kasey 1857 – 1939​
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)​
Anna S. Hall 1859 – 1865​
(Buried: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri)​
Emma Hall Baskett 1867 – 1955​
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Missouri)​

Brother:
US Congressman Willard Preble Hall 1820 – 1882
(Buried: Mount Mora Cemetery, Saint Joseph, Missouri)​

Political Party: Unionist Party and Democratic Party


Education:

Attended Yale College​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Huntsville, Missouri​
Attorney in Fayette, Missouri​
1847 – 1861: Judge of Fayette Missouri Circuit Court​
Served in the Mexican – American War rising to Captain​
1855: Presided over trial of a pregnant slave woman who murdered her master in self – defense.​

Civil War Career:

1861: Delegate to Missouri State Constitutional Convention​
Elected to U.S. Congress to fill explosion vacancy of John B. Clark​
1862 – 1865: United States Congressman from Missouri​
1862 – 1863: Member of House Pacific Railroad Committee​
1863 – 1865: Ranking Member House Roads and Canals Committee​
1863 – 1865: Member House Post Office Expenditures Committee​
1864: Choose not to be a candidate for renomination to U.S. Congress​
1864: Missouri Delegate to Democratic Party National Convention​
1865: Choose not to vote in 13th​ Amendment vote.​

Occupation after War:

Attorney and Farmer in Missouri​

Died:
December 15, 1888

Place of Death: near Darksville, Missouri

Age at time of Death: 73 years old

Burial Place: Hall Family Cemetery, Darksville, Missouri
 
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His seat in congress before the war was to fill the seat of John Clark, who was expelled for taking up arms against the Union. Clark earlier filled that seat when James S. Green resigned.
 
There was almost 1 year left of Missouri Gov.Hamilton R. Gamble's term when he died in office on January 31, 1864. This vacancy was filled by Hall's brother, Lt. Gov. William P. Hall.
 
That trial that he presided over, the one of Celia the pregnant slave girl, was for 1st degree murder for her owner Robert Newson. That trial resulted in her being found guilty and hanged in December 1855.
 
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