Murray Hall

Murray H. Hall (1841 − January 16, 1901) was a New York City bail bondsman and Tammany Hall politician who became famous on his death in 1901 when it was revealed that he was a transgender man.

Born in Govan, Scotland, he began wearing male attire and using the name "John Anderson" aged 16. Hall reportedly migrated to America after being reported to the police by his first wife and lived as a man for nearly 25 years, able to vote and to work as a politician at a time when women were denied such rights. At the time of his death, he resided with his second wife and their adopted daughter. The building was renumbered in 1929, when Manhattan's Sixth Avenue was extended south, and is now 453 6th Avenue. The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project lists the building.