Obed Hall
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Obed Hall (December 23, 1757 – April 1, 1828) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.
He was born in Raynham, Massachusetts. He later moved to Madbury, New Hampshire and then to Upper Bartlett, New Hampshire and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Subsequently, he became an innkeeper.
Hall served a surveyor of highways in 1790. He was a member of the board of selectmen 1791, 1798, 1800, 1802-1810, 1814-1819, and 1823. He served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1801 and 1802. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor John Taylor Gilman.
Hall was elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811–March 3, 1813). He was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1819. He died in Bartlett, New Hampshire in 1828 and was buried in Garland Ridge Cemetery, about two miles south of Bartlett. Later, he was reburied in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
