Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-12-19
The Governors of Vermont-23.
HILAND HALL.

Virginia has not inaptly been called
the Iuothey of Presidents. Five OF her
sops while residents Of the State, have
been at different times called to that high
position. The government of the United
States had been organized at the COM
mencement of the present administration,
some seventy-two years. or this period
Virginia has furnished the Chief Magis-
trate of the republic thirty.six years-or
one half OF the time. With the present
incumbent, sixteen different individuals
have filled the Presidential chair, and
FIVE OF them, or nearly one-third, have
been taken from Virginia.
In an equally appropriate manner is
Bennington County entitled to the appel
lation Of the Mother Of Governors of Yer
mont. Vermont having declared herself
Of right, free and independent State,
organized her government by the election
of a Governor and other State officers,
and by the assembling Of her first Legis-
lature in March, 1878, - elghty.nine
wears have now elapsed. OF which the
sons of Bennington County have filled the
Gubernatorlal chair twenty seven years,
or nearly third Of the time. Vermont
was admitted into the Union and became
one of the United States Of America in
1891, some seventy.six years ago; about
three-eighths of the time Bennington
County has furnished US with our Gov
ernors. Since 1878, including the pres
ent incumbent, twenty.seven different in
divduals have been elected to the office
of Governor Of Vermont. OF these, six,
or two.ninths, have been selected from
that County, and four Of them have
been residents OF the town OF Benning-
ton.
HILAND HALL, the twenty-third Gov.
ernor of Vermont, was born at Benning.
ton, on the Goth day Of July, 1896. His
boyhood and youth was passed on his
fathers farm in Bennington. His early
education was limited, having only tht
benefit of common school education.
He studied law and was admitted II
the bar in Bennington County in 1919
He established himself in practice at Ben
nington. He has continued to reside il
his native town from that time to tn,
present, except when engaged in officia
duties.
He was clerk of the Supreme ant
County Courts for Bennington Count.
in 1928. He remained as such but
single year. The year following he wa
elected States Attorney for that Count
and was reelected in 1880, 1881 an
1882.
In 1927 he represented the town of hi
nativity in the House OF Representative
Of Vermont. Since which time he ha
been almost constantly in public life, til
his retirement from the Gubernatoria
chair,
In 1888 he was elected member c
Congress from the Southern District c
Vermont. He represented that distric
in the United States House of Represen
tatives ten years, receiving five differen
elections. During portion OF his tim
he was chairman of the House Commit
tee Of Revolutionary claims. He game
an enviable reputation for his course /
resisting certain claims from Virgin.
for pay for alleged services during tn
Revolutionary war. An appropriation
for their payment had, If we are not nis
taken, passed the Senate, comparativel
without opposition, and was before th
House for concurrence. They were RI
ferred to the committee, Of which Nj
: Hall was chsi-maa, a. u-oz close j.