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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 biological female.
He was born in Govan, Scotland under the name "Mary Anderson" and with the assigned gender of "female". At 16, he began wearing male attire and using the name "John Anderson". 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. He also ran a commercial "intelligence office." At the time of his death, he resided with his second wife and their adopted daughter. His biological sex had been a secret even to his own daughter and friends, who continued to respect his expression after death. After his death, an aide to a state senator remarked "If he was a woman he ought to have been born a man, for he lived and looked like one."
His last home was an apartment in Greenwich Village, half a block north of the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now the Jefferson Market Library). 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.
Hall died from breast cancer, treatment for which he seemed to have delayed for fear of exposing his biological sex. He was buried in women's clothes in an unmarked grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery.




References






Further reading


The San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project, "She Even Chewed Tobacco": A Pictorial Narrative of Passing Women in America, in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. Edited by Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr. (New York: Meridian, 1990), 183–194.
Karen Abbott, "The Mystery of Murray Hall," Smithsonian, July 21, 2011.
Melanie Senn, Murray: A Novel ISBN 979-8989109005, September 4, 2023. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9FLYL




External links


Gender Bender: Mary Masquerades as Murray
"Murray H. Hall Residence", NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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