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Darwin Hall



Darwin Scott Hall (January 23, 1844 – February 23, 1919) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Mound Prairie, Wheatland Township, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, January 23, 1844; moved with his parents to Waukaw, Winnebago County, in 1847, thence to Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, in 1856; attended the common schools, the local academy at Elgin, IL, and Markham’s Academy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin served as a private in Company K, Forty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War; settled near Birch Cooley, Renville County, MN, in 1866 and engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1868; auditor of Renville County 1869 – 1873; clerk of the district court 1873 – 1878; member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1876; editor of the Renville Times, which he founded in 1876; register of the United States land office at Benson, MN, 1878 – 1886; served in the Minnesota Senate in 1886; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891); unsuccessful can



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