Willard Preble Hall
| Willard Preble Hall | |
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| Governor of Missouri | |
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In office January 31, 1864 – January 2, 1865 |
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| Lieutenant | vacant |
| Preceded by | Hamilton Rowan Gamble |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Clement Fletcher |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 4th district |
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In office March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853 |
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| Preceded by | none |
| Succeeded by | Mordecai Oliver |
| Lieutenant Governor of Missouri | |
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In office 1861–1864 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Caute Reynolds |
| Succeeded by | George Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 9, 1820 Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| Died | November 2, 1882 (aged 62) St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
| Profession | lawyer |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | First Missouri Cavalry Regiment |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Battles/wars | Mexican-American War |
William Willard Preble Hall (May 9, 1820 – November 2, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Missouri from 1864 to 1865 during the last years of the American Civil War.
Hall was born in Harpers Ferry, then in Virginia. He attended a private school in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University in 1839.
He accompanied his father, John H. Hall, to Randolph County, Missouri, in 1840. He studied law and was admitted to the bar at Huntsville in 1841, commencing his law practice in Sparta in 1842. He was appointed circuit attorney in 1843 and served for several years. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844.
During the Mexican-American War, Hall enlisted as a private in the First Missouri Cavalry Regiment and later was promoted to lieutenant. He was appointed by General Kearny, together with Col. Alexander Doniphan, to construct the code of civil laws known as the Kearny code in both English and Spanish for the territory annexed from Mexico. In October he accompanied the famous Mormon Battalion on its march to California, thereafter he returned to Missouri and assumed his seat in Congress.
Hall was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847 to March 3, 1853. During his Congressional service he was the chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-first Congress), and of the Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-second Congress).
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