John Hubert Hall

John Hubert Hall

Infobox Governor
name= John Hubert Hall


width= 200
height= 255px
caption= Gov. John H. Hall
order=26th
office= Governor of Oregon
term_start= October 30, 1947
term_end= January 10, 1949
lieutenant=
predecessor= Earl Snell
successor= Douglas McKay
birth_date= birth date|1899|2|7|mf=y
birth_place= Portland, Oregon
death_date= death date and age|1970|11|14|1899|2|7|mf=y
death_place= Newport, Oregon
spouse= Elizabeth Walch
Alyce Johnson
profession= Lawyer
religion=Episcopalian
party= Republican
footnotes=

John Hubert Hall (February 7, 1899 - November 14, 1970) was an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1947, fourth in line to the governorship, when the governor, secretary of state, and senate president were all killed in a plane crash. He served as governor for just over one year.

Early life and education

A Portland native, Hall was the son of John Hicklin Hall, ultimately following his father's footsteps in law and government as a prominent attorney, politician, and jurist. He attended Culver Military academy in Indiana and Lincoln and Jefferson high schools in Portland, and graduated from Oregon State University in 1923 with a business administration degree.

During World War I, he served in the United States Navy as a medical corpsman, and upon his return home, held a variety of jobs before entering Portland's Northwestern School of Law (now a part of Lewis & Clark College), and was admitted to the bar in 1926. He married Elizabeth Walch on December 28, 1926, with whom he had two children before her death in 1937. He and Alyce Johnson married on December 31, 1941 and had one child.

In his practice, Hall specialized in corporate and business, representing many corporate clients, including liquor interests, which would play a role in his later political career. He had joined his father's firm in 1926, and upon the elder Hall's retirement, joined the Bowermann law firm in 1932, and later moved to Lincoln City, Oregon, and opened a private practice.

Political career

Hall was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives (elected 1932, 1938, 1942, 1944, 1946) becoming Speaker in 1947. It was in that capacity that he succeeded to the office of Governor of Oregon to serve the remainder of the term (1947 to 1949) of Earl Snell, who was killed in a plane crash on October 28, 1947. The next two in line of succession, secretary of state Robert S. Farrell, Jr. and senate president Marshall E. Cornett, were killed in the same incident.

During Hall's short tenure as Governor, he sought to adjust wages and salaries of state employees for inflation, was a strong supporter of education, and favored a plan to allocate state surpluses on construction projects for higher educational and other state institutions.

From the beginning, Hall's administration was marked by controversy regarding his attempts to liberalize the state's regulation of the liquor industry. He sought to reorganize the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which he had felt had been arbitrary and non-judicial in its decisions when he had represented clients before it, and unresponsive to the legislature during his tenure as a State Representative. The issue came to a head with his dismissal of a commission member who had publicly disagreed with the governor over removing limits on the purchase of liquor.

During the height of the controversy, State Senator Douglas McKay, a friend of late Governor Snell, and president of the Automobile Dealer's Association, announced that he would challenge Hall in the 1948 Republican primary, and quickly launched a well-financed and organized campaign. A contentious race ensued, in which charges of conflicts of interest and immorality were brought to bear against Hall because of his liquor industry ties. Hall lost the nomination to McKay by a statewide vote of 103,224 to 107,993.

Later life

After leaving office as Governor, Hall moved to Lincoln County, Oregon, to practice law. He served one term as an Oregon district judge,(elected 1965), overcame throat cancer, and after a short period of semi-retirement, died in Newport on November 14, 1970.

References

*cite web
title=John Hubert Hall
work=Governors of Oregon
publisher=Oregon State Library
url=http://www.osl.state.or.us/home/lib/governors/jhh.htm
format=html
accessdate=2006-11-26

*cite web
title=Governor John H. Hall: Biographical Note
work=Oregon Governors
publisher=Oregon State Archives
date=
url=http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/governors/Hall/Halloverview.html
format=html
accessdate=2006-11-26


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