BIO: Benjamin E. Hall; New York State
surname: Hall

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Benjamin E. Hall was born November 2, 1862, at Bloomingdale, Essex
county, N.Y., in the heart of the Adirondacks, and is a son of the Hon. Monroe
Hall, a prominent citizen of that county, and a Member of Assembly in 1858-9.
Mr. Hall's ancestors on both sides have been residents of northern New York
for several generations.

     He attended the public schools of Plattsburgh, N.Y., and graduated at
Williams College in 1885. Thereafter he taught school for a year, and then
studied law and pursued a course at the Columbia Law School in New York, where
he has practised for nineteen years, with an office at 34 Nassau street.

     Mr. Hall served on the New York city Board of Aldermen from 1894 to
1897, during the Strong administration, having been elected by the largest
majority ever given a candidate in his district, which was the same as that
formerly represented in the State Assembly by President Roosevelt. At the
expiration of his term he received an unsolicited nomination for County Clerk
of New York county on a Citizens' ticket, and although defeated, received more
votes than any other Republican on the ticket.

     On the election of Mayor Low he appointed Mr. Hall President of the
Board of Assessors of New York city, which office he held during the two years
of Mr. Low's term.

     On January 17, 1907, Mr. Hall was appointed by Governor Hughes State Tax
Commissioner for a full term of three years, to succeed the Hon. William
Halpin.

     Mr. Hall is an active member of the Republican Club of the city of New
York, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.