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Tony Patrick Hall (born Jan. 16, 1942, in Dayton, Ohio) is an American politician who served as a Democrat from Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 20 years and is currently an ambassador to the United Nations and chief of the U.S. mission to the U.N. Agencies in Rome (the World Food Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development). The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
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Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the Senate. ...
The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ...
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters. ...
With its headquarters in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations programs seek to raise levels of nutrition and standard of living; to improve the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of food and agricultural products; to promote rural development; and, by these means, to eliminate hunger. ...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development is an agency of the United Nations. ...
Hall was graduated from Fairmont High School (Kettering, Ohio) in 1960. He received an artium baccalaureus degree from Denison University (Granville, Ohio) in 1964. While in college, Hall was named Little All-American football tailback and the Ohio Conference's Most Valuable Player (1963). Denison University is a private liberal arts and sciences college in Granville, Ohio, approximately 30 miles (50 km) east of Columbus. ...
Hall worked in the Peace Corps from 1966 to 1967, during which he taught English in Thailand. After working as a real estate agent, Hall served as an Ohio state representative from 1969 to 1973 and as an Ohio state senator from 1973 to 1979. In 1974, Hall ran for Ohio secretary of state and lost to Republican incumbent Ted W. Brown. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
Ted W. Brown was an American politician of the Ohio Republican party and long-time Ohio Secretary of State. ...
Hall was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, and began serving in 1979 (96th Congress). Hall, moderate-to-conservative Democrat, succeeded U.S. Rep. Charles W. Whalen Jr., a moderate Republican, as representative of the overwhelmingly Democratic third district. In the 1980s, Hall became a born-again Christian and changed his position from pro-choice to pro-life. Hall served in Congress for 24 years, longer than any previous U.S. representative representing Dayton's district.
He served in the House until 2003, after which he accepted President George W. Bush's nomination to succeed George McGovern as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture. Hall's confirmation to the U.N. post, however, was held up until September 2002, making it difficult for his Democratic substitute in the House race, Richard A. Carne, to build up much name recognition before the November election. As a result, former Dayton Mayor Michael R. Turner, a Republican who had recently lost reelection to the mayoralty, was elected to take Hall's place. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former Governor of the State of Texas. ...
George McGovern. ...
The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ...
Richard Alan Carne is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party. ...
For other people named Michael Turner, see Michael Turner. ...
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
During his tenure in Congress, Hall's primary focus was addressing hunger around the world. He made frequent trips to more than 100 countries such as Sierra Leone where hunger was widespread. He was chairman of the Select Committee on Hunger from 1989 to 1993. When the committee was abolished, Hall fasted for 22 days in protest. He was founder of the Congressional Friends of Human Rights Monitors and the Congressional Hunger Center. Hall served terms on the foreign affairs and small business committees before being appointed to the House Rules Committee in 1981.
Twice during his tenure as U.S. representative, Hall introduced legislation that would have apologized for slavery.
Hall was an Ohio delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
Hall's father, Dave Hall was a Republican mayor of Dayton, Ohio. Hall's son Matt died in 1996 at age 15 of leukemia. Hall's brother Sam was a state legislator. Hall and his wife, Janet Sue Dick, were married in 1973. Dave Hall was an American politician of the Ohio Republican party. ...
The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
The mayor of Dayton is also a member of the city commission. ...
Downtown Dayton, Ohio, as seen from across the Great Miami River Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. ...
Sam Hall, brother of Ambassador Tony Hall and the son of former Dayton, Ohio, mayor Dave Hall, served in the Ohio legislature. ...
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Voters in Ohio, as in other U.S. states elect a certain number of representatives to the United States House of Representatives. ...
The voters of the U.S. state of Ohio elect a secretary of state for a four-year term. ...
Ohio was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803. ...
External links
- Peace Corps biography of Tony Hall
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