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HALL, Willis, lawyer, born in Granville, New York, 1 April, 1801; died in New York city, 14 July, 1868. He was graduated at Yale in 1824, studied law in New York, and Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1827, practising in Mobile, Alabama, from 1827 till 1831, and in New York from 1831 till 1838. He was elected a member of the assembly in 1837, and again in 1842. In 1838 he was appointed attorney-general of the state, and filled this office for one year. He was for some time a lecturer in the law school of Saratoga. In 1848 he opposed the nomination of General Taylor as the Whig candidate for the presidency and supported Henry Clay, and in the same year retired from professional and political life.
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