Oscar Hallam

Background

Hallam, Oscar was born on October 19, 1865 in Town of Linden, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Wood) Hallam.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1887, Bachelor of Laws, 1889.

Career

He served as a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1912 to 1924, and served as a Minnesota state Second District Court judge from 1905 to 1912. In 1924, Hallam was a candidate in the Minnesota state primary election for the office of United States Senator. He was also Chairman of the Section on Criminal Law of the American Bar Association.

In 1926, he served as Chairman of the Minnesota Crime Commission and originated the Minnesota State Department of Criminal Apprehension and established the full-time Minnesota Board of Parole.

He also served as President of the Ramsey County Bar Association, was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Twin City Unit of the Shriners Hospital for Children, and Chairman of the 4-Minute Men of Minnesota during World War I.

Born on a farm, in the town of Linden, Iowa County, Wisconsin, Hallam received his Bachelor of Arts in 1887 and Bachelor of Laws in 1887 from the University of Wisconsin. Image: Oscar Hallam Minnesota Historical Society Photograph Collection ca.

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Image: Edith Lott Hallam (Mrs Oscar Hallam) Minnesota Historical Society Photograph Collection ca. 1930

Memorial from volume 220 of Minnesota Reports for Associate Justice Oscar Hallam…p.

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A few years before his death in 1946, Judge Oscar Hallam of Saint Paul wrote a series of stories about his youth on a Midwest farm of the 1870s and assembled them in a manuscript volume which he called "Bloomfield and Number Five".

The original manuscript, "Bloomfield and Number Five" Oscar Hallam was presented to the Minnesota Historical Society by the author"s daughter, Mistress Cornelia Hallam Miller of Saint Paul in 1946.

Achievements

• Oscar Hallam has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Hallam was a member of the faculty (1901–1945), dean (1919–1941) and president until 1945, of William Mitchell College of Law.

Connections

Married Edith L. Lott, July 27, 1892.

Father:

Joseph Hallam

Mother:

Mary (Wood) Hallam

Spouse:

Edith L. Lott