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Charles E. Hall

1868 – 1952

American government statitician

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About Charles E. Hall

Lived 1868 – 1952 (aged 83–84). Charles E. Hall was a newspaper editor and statistician.

Charles Edward Hall (May 22, 1868 – September 29, 1952) was a government official in the United States and an expert statistician.

He was born in Batavia, Illinois the son of Reverend Abraham Thompson Hall, the first licensed African to preach in Chicago, and Joanna Huss Hall, a community activist. He had 11 siblings. He attended public schools and then business college in Spokane, Ohio and at Wilberforce University in Ohio.

Hall was the first non white to be appointed to be a senate committee clerk in the Illinois Senate. He worked as the managing editor of the Illinois Record from 1897 to 1898, and in 1900 was appointed as a clerk in the United States Census Bureau. By 1938 he had worked for 38 years in the bureau and was described as an essential part of Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal.

Hall authored The Negro In the United States in 1930, He also wrote a 165 page pamphlet in 1905 called "Pottery and the Clay Products of the United States".

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1868
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1952

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American government statitician

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Charles E. Hall was born in 1868.

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Charles E. Hall died in 1952.

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Charles E. Hall was a newspaper editor and statistician.

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