John Hubert Hall
| John Hubert Hall | |
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Gov. John H. Hall
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| 24th Governor of Oregon | |
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In office October 30, 1947 – January 10, 1949 |
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| Preceded by | Earl Snell |
| Succeeded by | Douglas McKay |
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| Born |
February 7, 1899 Portland, Oregon |
| Died | November 14, 1970 (aged 71) Newport, Oregon |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Walch Alyce Johnson |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
John Hubert Hall (February 7, 1899 – November 14, 1970) was an American Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. He was Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1947, fourth in line to the governorship, when the governor, secretary of state, and senate president were all killed in a plane crash. He served as the 24th Governor of Oregon for just over one year.
Hall was born in Portland, the son of John Hicklin Hall, who served as Oregon's District Attorney. He attended Lincoln and Jefferson high schools in Portland, and Culver Military Academy in Indiana. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1923 with a business administration degree.
During World War I, he served in the United States Navy as a medical corpsman, and upon his return home, held a variety of jobs before entering Portland's Northwestern School of Law (now a part of Lewis & Clark College), and was admitted to the bar in 1926. He married Elizabeth Walch on December 28, 1926, with whom he had two children before her death in 1937. He and Alyce Johnson married on December 31, 1941 and had one child.
In his practice, Hall specialized in corporate and business, representing many corporate clients, including liquor interests, which would play a role in his later political career. He had joined his father's firm in 1926, and upon the elder Hall's retirement, joined the Bowermann law firm in 1932, and later moved to Lincoln City, Oregon, and opened a private practice.
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