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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the David McKee Hall Papers, #3537, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the Library of Congress, May 1961.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Hall, David McKee, 1918-1960.
• Hawaii--History--1959-
• Military pensions--United States--History.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1951-
• Statehood (American politics)
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Congress. House--History--20th century.
• Veterans--United States--History--20th century.

David McKee Hall (1918-1960) of Sylva, Jackson County, N.C., was a United States Representative, Democrat, lawyer, and leader in regional business and civic affairs. Hall was the son of David McKee Hall and Edith Moore Hall. He contracted osteomyelitis as a teenager and was subsequently confined to a wheelchair. He was a special student at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1948. He practiced law at Sylva, had a cattle farm at Webster, N.C., and had other business interests in the vicinity. In 1944 he married Sarah McCullom. He was elected to the state Senate in 1954 and to United States House of Representatives of the 86th Congress in 1958. Hall represented the 12th District of North Carolina and was a member of the House committees on Science and Astronautics, Appropriations, and National Rivers and Harbors. He died thirteen months into his term.

The collection includes Congressional office files, November 1958-January 1960, of United States Representative David McKee Hall. Hall's correspondence for the thirteen months of his service was with constituents in the 12th district, lobbyists, fellow congressmen, and political leaders. It concerned veterans' pensions, Hawaiian statehood, social security provisions, tobacco quotas, taxes, labor legislation, and other issues before Congress.