1. Willard Hall, was a Delaware attorney and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County.
24 Facts About Willard Hall
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Willard Hall was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware Senate, as a United States representative from Delaware and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
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Willard Hall served as the first President of the Delaware Historical Society, was President of the state Bible society, and was instrumental in the formation of the Wilmington Savings Fund Society as a community bank, serving as its president for more than 40 years.
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Willard Hall graduated from Harvard University in 1799 and read law in 1803.
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Willard Hall was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Dover, Delaware, from 1803 to 1823.
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Willard Hall was Secretary of State of Delaware from 1811 to 1814, and from 1821 to 1823.
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Willard Hall was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Delaware's at-large congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 15th United States Congress.
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Willard Hall was reelected to the 16th United States Congress and served from March 4,1817, until January 22,1821, when he resigned.
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Willard Hall was an unsuccessful candidate in 1820 for reelection to the 17th United States Congress.
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Willard Hall was a member of the Delaware Senate in 1822.
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Willard Hall was the compiler of the Revised Code of Delaware in 1829.
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Willard Hall was a delegate to the Delaware constitutional convention in 1821.
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Willard Hall received a recess appointment from President James Monroe on May 6,1823, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware vacated by Judge John Fisher.
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Willard Hall was nominated to the same position by President Monroe on December 5,1823.
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Willard Hall was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 9,1823, and received his commission the same day.
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Willard Hall's service terminated on December 6,1871, due to his retirement.
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Willard Hall was President of the Wilmington School Board from 1852 to 1870.
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Willard Hall was the first President of the Delaware Historical Society.
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In September 1831, Willard Hall was among twenty-five founding members elected to serve on the board of the newly formed Wilmington Savings Fund Society, a community bank designed to provide persons with only modest savings a safe place to deposit their funds.
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On October 1,1831, Willard Hall was elected president of the bank, a position he held until 1872, when he retired at the age of 92.
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Willard Hall died on May 10,1875, in Wilmington, Delaware, where he had moved in 1825.
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Willard Hall was interred in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery in Wilmington.
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In 1806, Willard Hall married Junia Killen, the daughter of Chancellor William Killen and they had a daughter, Lucinda.
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Willard Hall served as a ruling elder and Sunday School teacher in the Presbyterian Church.