Speech of Hon. Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, on the Admission of California
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Territorial Government In Oregon: Speech Of Honorable W. P. Hall, Of Missouri (1848)
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Speech of Hon. Willard P. Hall, of Missouri, delivered in committee of the whole, the President's message being under consideration; in the House of representatives, December 11, 1851
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Willard Preble Hall was an American soldier, lawyer, statesman and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 1861 to 1864.
Background
Willard Preble Hall was born on May 9, 1820, at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), United States, of New England ancestry. He was the son of John and Statira (Preble) Hall. His father, for many years superintendent of the government armory at Harper’s Ferry, and the inventor of a breechloading gun called “Hall’s carbine, " was descended from Stephen Hall who was in Concord, Massachusetts, as early as 1653 and settled at Stow, Massachusetts, about 1685; his mother, a native of Maine, sister of William Pitt Preble, traced her ancestry to Abraham Preble who settled at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1636.
Education
Willard Hall was prepared for college in the schools of his native town and in Baltimore and was graduated from Yale College in 1839, at the age of nineteen. In 1840 he removed to Huntsville, Missouri, where he studied law under his brother.
Career
In 1841 Willard Preble Hall settled at Sparta, Missouri, and in 1843 made his permanent home in St. Joseph, Missouri. In that year he was appointed circuit attorney by Governor Reynolds. His cordial manner won him a large measure of popularity, and in 1844 Willard Preble Hall was presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, and helped carry Missouri for James K. Polk. Hall was chosen to take the certificate to Washington.
When the Mexican War began Hall was a candidate for Congress, but, notwithstanding, he enlisted as a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel A. W. Doniphan. When the army took possession of Santa Fe, General Stephen W. Kearny ordered Hall to collaborate with Colonel Doniphan in preparing a code of laws for governing New Mexico. This code survived, in its main features, for more than a generation. While at Santa Fe, Hall was notified of his release from military service on account of his election to Congress. Pending the beginning of the session, he volunteered for the expedition which took possession of California. He served three terms in Congress, where he secured a grant of 600, 000 acres of land for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. He also aided in the passage of acts giving to the State of Missouri swamp and waste lands which helped to endow its public-school system.
At the expiration of his congressional career Hall returned to the practice of law, and was soon recognized as one of the best lawyers in a circuit. He opposed the secession of Missouri from the Union, and was elected a delegate to the state convention of 1861. At the first session he became one of the recognized leaders. When Hamilton R. Gamble was made provision-governor in July 1861, after Governor Jackson had been driven from the state by Federal forces, Hall was chosen lieutenant-governor, and after Gamble’s death in 1864, succeeded him as provisional governor. When his term expired the following year he returned to St. Joseph. There he owned a farm and took great interest in agricultural experiments.
Achievements
Willard Hall is best remembered as the 17th Governor of Missouri, serving from 1864 to 1865. During his tenure, he successfuly dealt with the war's devastating effects on the state's economy and industry.
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Connections
On October 28, 1847, at St Joseph, Hall was married to Ann Eliza Richardson, daughter of Major William P. Richardson, by whom he had four children. After her death he was married a second time, on June 22, 1864, to Ollie L. Oliver, by whom he had two sons and a daughter.
