Willard Hall

Willard Hall (December 24, 1780 – May 10, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware.

Hall was born in Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on December 24, 1780; attended the public schools and Westford Academy; graduated from Harvard University in 1799; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1803 and commenced practice in Dover, Delaware. He served as Secretary of State of Delaware from 1811 to 1814. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1817, until January 22, 1821, when he resigned. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1820 for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress, and again Delaware Secretary of State in 1821 and a member of the Delaware Senate in 1822. He was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and served from May 6, 1823, until December 6, 1871, when he resigned. He moved to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1825 where he served as compiler of the Revised Code of Delaware in 1829. He was delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821, and president of the Wilmington School Board 1852-1870. He died in Wilmington, Del., May 10, 1875 and was interred at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.

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*U.S. Congress (2005). [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000076 Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress] . Retrieved December 24, 2005.