Background
Hall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, graduated from Collingswood High School, Collingswood, New Jersey in 1964, and joined the Marine Corps that summer.
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While serving in the Massachusetts senate, Hall earned a Master of Education in History from Fitchburg State College in 1980, attending in the evening. He was first elected in 1972, the year he graduated from U-Mass, by a margin of nine votes out of over 60,000 cast.
Career
He served four years from 1964 until 1968, including service in Vietnam as a Radio Relay Team Chief at Khe Sanh in 1967. Hall left the Corps as a Corporal in 1968 to attend college, but rejoined the Marine Reserves while in the Senate, serving from 1977 to 1983 as a radio operator and public information officer He finally left the Corps in 1983 as a staff sergeant, due to time conflicts with his civilian profession, declining a commission as a Second Lieutenant at that time.
Hall earned an Associate of Arts degree from Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Master of Arts in 1970, where he served as Student Council President.
He received a Bachelor degree in Government from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was on the student senate, in 1972. He was the first Republican elected in what was then the Third Worcester District since 1938.
The district comprised the cities of Fitchburg, Leominster and Gardner, and ten area towns. Hall lived in Lunenburg, Master of Arts when elected, later moving to Fitchburg.
Hall was re-elected in 1974 by a margin of 10,000 votes, carrying every city and town in the heavily Democratic district.
Hall was appointed Assistant Minority Whip in 1978 and Minority Whip in 1980. He retired undefeated in 1982. After leaving the Senate, Hall managed several trade associations, serving first as Executive Director of the Florida Psychological Association.
From 2002 until 2007, Hall was Executive Director of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry in Madison, Wisconsin. American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry is a professional association with 23 staff and 7,800 members in 60 countries.
In 2008, he became Executive Director of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in Rosemont, Illinois. He has pulmonary fibrosis, an eventually-terminal lung disease. He retired in 2013. Hall is active in Scottish activities, has traveled to Scotland over 20 times, and is co-designer of the Leatherneck Tartan for United States Marines, a registered Scottish tartan.
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Achievements
Politics
In 1976, he was nominated by both parties, winning the Democratic primary on write-in votes against a Leominster City Councilor.
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He authored a piece on his blog giving a conservative"s point of view about current liberal policies in United States Government.
Membership
Hall worked with members of both parties, and over 60 pieces of legislation he sponsored became law.
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