John Smythe Hall
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Born in Montreal, the son of John Smythe Hall, a lumber merchant, and Emma Brigham, he attended Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec and received a Bachelor of Law degree from McGill University in 1875. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1876 and then started a law career which would see him become a principal partner of the law firm Hall, Cross, Brown, and Sharp.
He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1886 election for the riding of Montréal-Ouest. A Conservative, he was acclaimed in the 1890 election in the riding of Montréal division no. 5 and was re-elected in the 1892 election. He was defeated in the 1897 election. In 1891, he was appointed provincial treasurer in the cabinet of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and served in the cabinet of Louis-Olivier Taillon.
After being ill and spending time to recover in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado, Hall moved to Calgary, Alberta where he became editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald. He also opened a law firm, called Hall and Stewart. He became a member of the Calgary Municipal Council and a city solicitor. He died in Calgary in 1909 and was buried in Montreal.
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- 1853 births
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- Anglophone Quebec people
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- Journalists from Montreal
- Bishop's College School alumni
- Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs
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- McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
- Calgary city councillors
- 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec