Joshua Hall | |
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| 8th Governor of Maine | |
| In office January 6, 1830 – February 9, 1830 | |
| Preceded by | Nathan Cutler |
| Succeeded by | Jonathan G. Hunton |
| 9th President of the Maine Senate | |
| In office 1830–1830 | |
| Preceded by | Nathan Cutler |
| Succeeded by | F.O.J. Smith |
| Member of the Maine Senate | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 22, 1768 Lewes, Colony of Delaware, British America |
| Died | December 25, 1862 (aged 94) Frankfort, Maine, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Methodist minister |
Joshua Hall (October 22, 1768 – December 25, 1862) was an American legislator who served as the eighth governor of Maine for 34 days in 1830.
Hall, a Methodist minister in Frankfort, Maine, was elected to the Maine Senate in 1830 and was chosen as President of the Maine Senate. After Governor Enoch Lincoln died in office, he was succeeded by the then Maine Senate president Nathan Cutler. The Maine Supreme Court, however, ruled that Cutler could not remain in office as Governor past the expiration of his Senate term on January 6, 1830. Hall as the new President of the Maine Senate was then sworn in as acting Governor, serving until the inauguration of Jonathan Hunton on February 9, 1830. Hall then retired from politics and returned to preaching.[1]
- ^ Wyman, Mary Alice (1927), Two American Pioneers: Seba Smith and Elizabeth Oakes Smith, New York, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 40