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Abraham Oakey Hall was an American politician and lawyer. He was also the author of lots of popular books and a playwright.
Background
Abraham Oakey Hall was born on July 26, 1826, in Albany, New York, United States, the son of Morgan James and Elsie Lansing (Oakey) Hall. His ancestry was for the most part English, his paternal grandfather being a carpenter of Hampshire, England, who married a Welsh woman, emigrated to America, and settled in Albany. On the maternal side he claimed descent from Colonel John Oakey, or Okey, as the name was then spelled, one of Oliver Cromwell’s aides and a member of the group responsible for sending Charles I to his doom. With the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660, Colonel Oakey escaped to Holland, where he died. His son Abraham, after whom A. Oakey Hall was named, married a French woman by the name of D’Assigne. In 1829 when Hall was only three years of age his father, a New York City merchant associated with the firm of P. R. Starr, died of yellow fever.
Education
At fourteen Abraham entered the University of the City of New York where he paid his way in part by contributing to newspapers and doing odd jobs. An excellent student, he received the degree of B. A. in 1844 and that of M. A. three years later. Ambitious for power and fame, he chose the law for a profession and spent one term at the Harvard Law School, where by his brilliance he made a very good impression. Leaving Cambridge, apparently because of lack of funds, Abraham Oakey Hall entered the law office of Charles W. Sanford of New York City where he remained only a short time before going to New Orleans. He then continued his law studies in the office of Thomas and John Slidell.
In 1849 he was admitted to the New Orleans bar.
Career
In 1853 Abraham Hall formed a partnership with Aaron J. Vanderpoel, a former classmate, which afterward became the firm of Brown, Hall, & Vanderpoel. Hall soon embarked on a political career which if not outstanding was at least notorious. He was appointed assistant district-attorney of New York County in 1851, and was district attorney from 1855 to 1858. In 1862 he was elected district attorney by a combination of Republicans and a Democratic faction headed by Fernando Wood, and served until 1868. It is asserted that during the last six years of his incumbency in this office he sent twelve thousand persons to prison and pigeon-holed more than ten thousand indictments against others.
The noted trial of Mrs. Cunningham for the murder of Dr. Burdell during his district attorneyship served to bring Hall into prominence. Realizing that the dominant power in New York politics was Tammany Hall, he forsook his former associations and in 1864 became a member of that organization. In 1868 Tammany made him mayor to succeed John T. Hoffman who had been elevated to the governorship of the state. His catering to the Irish and German voters won for him the title “Mayor Von O’Hall. ” Accused in 1871 of being implicated with Tweed, he stoutly maintained his innocence and refused to resign as mayor. Indicted and brought to trial in December 1872, he conducted his own defense and was acquitted. From 1879 to 1882 he was city editor of the New York World.
Hall gave up this position to go to London where, at the request of his friend James Gordon Bennett the younger, he was for five years London representative of the New York Herald. During 1890-1891 he served the New York Morning Journal in a similar capacity. While in London he was admitted to the English bar and practised in the English courts.
In 1889 he sued James Bryce for libel because a chapter on the “Tweed ring” in the first edition of The American Commonwealth referred to Hall as one of the culprits. He demanded £10, 000 damages, but after pending nine years the case was dropped.
Hall was a lover of literature and something of an author. Among his best works were: The Manhattaner in New Orleans or Phases of “Crescent City" Life (1851); Old Whitney’s Christmas Trot (1857); Sketches of Travel (1859) and others.
Hall also aspired to be known as a playwright. The Crucible in which he himself played a part in 1878 represents his greatest claim to dramatic distinction. Loyalina, Brigadier General Forfunio and His Seven Gifted Aides-de-Camp (1864), Humpty Dumpty, Fernande, and Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother were among his lesser productions.
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Religion
Abraham Oakey Hall was reared in the Presbyterian faith, later became a Swedenborgian, and in 1898, with his wife, was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Politics
Abraham Oakey Hall had been successively a Whig, a Know-Nothing and a Republican.
Membership
Hall was a director of the Manhattan Club, 1868-1871; president of the Lotus Club, 1870-1873, and a member of many other societies.
Personality
Hall craved social distinction, and despite early poverty and almost insuperable obstacles he achieved it. Fearless, level-headed, meticulous in speech and dress, he gained the title “Elegant Oakey. ”
Connections
Abraham Oakey Hall was married twice: first, to Katharine Louise, daughter of Joseph N. Barnes, by whom he had six children; and second, in 1896, to the widow of Capitan John J. Clifton of Scranton, Pennsylvania.