William Hall Governor of Tennessee
William Hall (1775 - 1856) was the Governor of Tennessee from April to October of 1829.
Hall was a native of North Carolina but came to Tennessee while still a young man and became a prosperous farmer as well as a political leader. After serving in the Creek War as a brigadier general, he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1797. After three terms in the state House, he was elected to the Tennessee State Senate, where he was later to serve as speaker.
A Democrat, as senate speaker he succeeded to the office of governor under the Tennessee state constitution when Samuel Houston resigned the post. He did not stand for election as governor in his own right. He was the first governor of Tennessee ever to serve out the unexpired portion of a term to which another person had been elected . An ally of Andrew Jackson, Hall later served in the United States House of Representatives for one term (1831-1833) and then retired from public life.
