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Robert Richard Hall (10 December 1865 – 8 April 1938) was a Canadian politician. Born in
Fenelon Township The Township of Fenelon was a municipality in present-day Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. The township was named after François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (missionary) (1641–79) who was a missionary in New France, establishing a missio ...
, Victoria County,
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, Hall was educated at the Cambray Public School and the Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School Institute. A lawyer, Hall was elected to the
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for the electoral district of
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at the 1904 general elections. A Liberal, he did not run in
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. He was defeated in the 1917 election to
John Hampden Burnham John Hampden Burnham (born October 14, 1860 in Peterborough, Canada West-died April 25, 1940) was a politician and lawyer. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Conservative Party in the election of 1911 to represe ...
.


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1865 births 1938 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Ontario-MP-stub