Background
Hall, Henry Clay was born on January 3, 1860 in New York, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Amanda Harwood (Ferry) Hall.
Hall, Henry Clay was born on January 3, 1860 in New York, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Amanda Harwood (Ferry) Hall.
Hall attended Amherst College and graduated in 1881, and received an Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1883.
He served as Chairman of the Commission from 1917 to 1918 and again in 1924. He was admitted to the New York City Bar Association in 1883. Hall returned to the United States in 1892 for health reasons.
Hall planned to journey to California for his health but stopped off to visit a brother in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and found he liked the place so much that he settled there.
Hall resumed the practice of law in Colorado, becoming a major corporation lawyer and became mayor of Colorado Springs from 1905 to 1907. He became general attorney for the Arkansas, Louisiana & Gulf Railway and served as counsel for many corporations.
He became President of the Bar in Colorado, and state vice-president of the American Bar Association. In early 1914, Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner Charles A. Prouty resigned to take the job as head of the Commission"s Division of Valuation, and to run for the Senate in Vermont.
This, in combination with the death in November 1913 of commissioner John Hobart Marble of California following an attack of acute indigestion, gave President Woodrow Wilson two seats to fill on the Commission.
Wilson selected Winthrop More Daniels of New Jersey to fill Marble"s seat, and Hall to fill Prouty"son This preserved the geographic balance on the Commission. Hall was the first commissioner from the Rocky Mountain region.
He served as Commission Chairman from 1917-1918 and in 1924.
Hall took the lead on the Commission in the Shreveport rate case, in which the Commission determined it could regulate intrastate freight. This position was upheld by the Supreme Court In 1921, Hall was reappointed for another seven-year term by President Harding.
In late 1927, Hall submitted his resignation to President Calvin Coolidge, effective on the appointment of a replacement. He left the Commission in 1928.
Hall died on November 9, 1936, at his home in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Member Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, District of Columbia, 1914-1928 (Chairman.
Married Mary Bacon Bartow, June 4, 1887 (died 1901). Married second, Alice Munsell Sweetser, March 14, 1905. Children: Bartow Harwood, Mistress Ethel Hall Gilman, Mistress Frances Hall Paige, Mistress Elizabeth Hall Talcott.