{{short description|American politician (1866–1952)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Elmer Hall | image = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | alongside = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|9|12}} | birth_place = New London, Wisconsin, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1952|5|22|1866|9|12}} | death_place = Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. | resting_place = Fort Howard Cemetery | party = Republican | spouse = {{marriage|Emma Taylor|1890}} | children = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician | signature = }}

'''Elmer Stephen Hall''' (September 12, 1866 – May 22, 1952) was an American politician from Wisconsin. He served as a member of the Wisconsin Senate, the 21st Wisconsin Secretary of State and as the 26th mayor of Green Bay.

==Early life== Elmer Stephen Hall{{citation needed |date=November 2024 |reason=full name}} was born on September 12, 1866, in New London, Wisconsin. He was raised by his grandparents in Green Bay. He attended school until fourth grade. At the age of 16, he was assistant postmaster at the Fort Howard post office.<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-elmer-hall-dies/158478212/ |title=Elmer Hall Dies After Surgey |date=1952-05-22 |newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-11-05}}{{Open access}}</ref>

==Career== Hall worked as a railway car checker, postal clerk and letter carrier.<ref name="obit"/> In 1895, he was a member of the consolidation committee of Fort Howard and Green Bay.<ref name="obit2">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/green-bay-press-gazette-hall-22-may-195/158478377/ |title=Hall |date=1952-05-22 |newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-11-05}}{{Open access}}</ref> He was elected as county clerk of Brown County in 1904.<ref name="obit"/> He served as county clerk for 12 years.<ref name="obit"/>

Hall served on the draft board for World War I.<ref name="obit2"/> He served as the 26th mayor of Green Bay for five years, during World War I and until January 1921. He was the first mayor under the new commission form of government in Green Bay. He became the 21st Wisconsin Secretary of State in 1921 and served for two years. He was appointed by Governor John J. Blaine as conservation commissioner of Wisconsin in 1923 and served in that role until 1928.<ref name="obit"/> He was a Republican.{{citation needed |date=November 2024}} He served in the Wisconsin Senate, representing district 2, from 1929 to 1932. He was defeated for re-election in 1932.<ref name="obit2"/>{{citation needed |date=November 2024 |reason=district served}}

Hall was secretary of the commercial club, forerunner of the Association of Commerce. He was a member of the Green Bay choral society.<ref name="obit2"/> He was a self-taught astronomer and published ''Solution of Lunar Motion by Diagram (with Harmonic Table)'' in 1935 and ''Gyro-static Mechanics of Earth's Moons System'' in 1944.<ref name="obit2"/>

==Personal life== Hall married Emma Taylor of Fond du Lac on January 20, 1890.<ref name="obit"/>

Hall died on May 22, 1952, at the Hilltop Nursing Home on West Mason Street in Green Bay. He was buried in Fort Howard Cemetery.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.green-bay.wi.us/mayors_past/mayor_hall.html |title=Mayors of Green Bay |access-date=2009-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202111520/http://www.ci.green-bay.wi.us/mayors_past/mayor_hall.html |archive-date=2009-12-02}}</ref>

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==References== *{{cite book |last=Anderson |first=William J. |editor-last=Anderson |editor-first=William A. |title=The Wisconsin blue book, 1929 |year=1929 |url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=header&id=WI.WIBlueBk1929&isize=M |access-date=2008-08-23 |publisher=Democrat Printing Company |location=Madison, Wisconsin |pages=144}} *{{cite book |editor-last=Barish |editor-first=Lawrence S. |title=State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007&ndash;2008 |url=http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/bb/07bb/ |format=PDF |date=July 2007 |location=Madison, Wisconsin |publisher=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |chapter=Chapter 8: Statistical Information on Wisconsin |chapter-url=http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/bb/07bb/statistics.htm |pages=721 |isbn=978-0-9752820-2-1 |access-date=2008-08-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811080930/http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/bb/07bb/ |archive-date=2011-08-11 }}

{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=Merlin Hull}} {{s-ttl|title=Republican nominee for Secretary of State of Wisconsin|years=1920}} {{s-aft|after=Fred R. Zimmerman}} {{s-off}} {{succession box |title=Secretary of State of Wisconsin |before=Merlin Hull |after=Fred Zimmerman |years=1921&ndash;1923}} {{s-end}}

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