 He was reelected at the expiration of his first term, and served until his resignation in the fall of 1876.In 1876, he made his first appearance in national politics, by becoming national chairman of the Young Men's Tilden and Hendricks club.Wall was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly for the First Milwaukee County Assembly district (First Ward of the City of Milwaukee) as a Democrat in 1877 (incumbent James Greeley Flanders, also a Democrat, was not a candidate for re-election), winning 691 votes to 505 for Republican Carl Doerflinger and 30 for Greenbacker George B. Goodwin.