Albert Richardson HALL, Congress, IN (1884-1969)

HALL Albert Richardson , a Representative from Indiana; born near West Baden, Orange County, Ind., August 27, 1884; attended the district school and the Paoli (Ind.) High School; was graduated from Indiana Central Business College at Indianapolis in 1906 and from Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., in 1912; principal of the high school at French Lick 1909-1911; superintendent of schools of Fairmount 1913-1917, of Waterloo in 1917 and 1918, and of Grant County 1921-1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; engaged in commercial printing 1932-1942; secretary and treasurer of Driveways Contractors, Inc.; engaged in the real estate business in Marion, Ind., editor of Fairmount, Ind., newspaper, and operator of Indiana Hotel in Marion, Ind., from 1961 until his death in Marion, Ind., November 29, 1969; interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present