Photograph, Granville Davisson Hall of Harrison County worked as a reporter for The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. In addition to attending and reporting on the Wheeling conventions, Hall also recorded the proceedings and debates of the Constitutional Convention. After the formation of West Virginia, he was elected clerk of the House of Delegates. In 1864, he was elected secretary of state. He later wrote Rending of Virginia, a history of the statehood process. Portrait File
