US Congressman. He was a United States Representative from the State of North Dakota. He was born one of three children as Thomas W. Hall to Richard Dunstone Hall (1839-1920), and his wife Ellen Peters Hall (1847-1930), in Cliff Mine, Michigan, on June 6, 1869. He moved with his parents to a homestead near Jamestown, North Dakota, when he was fourteen years old in 1883. He was educated locally in Stutsman County, North Dakota, in the common public schools, before attending the prestigious Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Following his education, he worked a series of odd jobs including as a construction worker for the Aberdeen, North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota, and Northwestern Railroads, as a clerk for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Mandan, North Dakota, and Fargo, North Dakota, from 1887 to 1894, as a newspaper reporter at Fargo from 1896 to 1907, and as a City Assessor of Fargo from 1903 to 1907. He also served as a Member of Company B of the North Dakota National Guard from 1893 to 1898, and from 1903 to 1906, as well as engaging in agricultural pursuits, before taking an interest in politics. He also served as a Secretary of the Progressive Republican Committee of the State of North Dakota from 1906 to 1912, and as a Secretary of the Board of Railroad Commissioners from 1910 to 1914. He was then elected to replace the outgoing Republican U.S. Representative Patrick Daniel Martin (1876-1953), and served as the 7th Secretary of State of North Dakota from 1913 to 1924. Following his term as Secretary of State, he was succeeded in office by Republican State Senator Robert Byrne (1886-1967), on January 1, 1925. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the outgoing Representative George Morley Young (1870-1932), on September 2, 1924, before being reelected to the Sixty-Ninth Congress and to three succeeding Congresses. A Republican, he then served North Dakota's 2nd District (Sixty-Eighth Congress), in the House of Representatives from November 4, 1924, to March 3, 1933. He was defeated as an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to Congress in 1932. Following his term in Congress he was succeeded by James Herbert Sinclair (1871-1943), on March 3, 1933. After leaving Congress he returned to his agricultural pursuits including ranching and farming in Oliver County, North Dakota, and other interests. He was elected and replaced Republican Herman Thorson (1880-1960), and served as the 11th Secretary of State of North Dakota from 1943 to 1954. After his term in office as Secretary of State, he retired and was succeeded by Republican Ben Meier (1918-1995), on January 1, 1955. A member of the Methodist faith, he was also involved in several noteworthy clubs or organizations including the Freemasons, Shriners, and Elks. He passed away following years of ill health at a nursing home in Bismarck, North Dakota, on December 4, 1958, at the age of 89. His funeral service was held at the chapel of the Boetler Funeral Home in Bismarck, and he was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bismarck. He was married to Anna Marie Grafenstein Hall (1872-1944), of Jamestown, North Dakota, on September 1, 1897, with whom he had four children, Richard, Ellen, Edna, and Lucille. She passed away on September 28, 1944, in Bismarck at the age of 72, and is buried with her husband.