Fletcher Hale
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Hampshire's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1925 – October 22, 1931
Preceded byWilliam Nathaniel Rogers
Succeeded byWilliam Nathaniel Rogers
Personal details
Born(1883-01-22)January 22, 1883
Portland, Maine, USA
DiedOctober 22, 1931(1931-10-22) (aged 48)
Brooklyn Naval Hospital
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Resting placeUnion Cemetery
Laconia, New Hampshire
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Alice Norma Armstrong Hale
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(m. 1913)​
Children2
Alma materDartmouth College
OccupationLawyer
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Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.

Early life

Born in Portland, Maine, on January 22, 1883,[1] Hale was the son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale.[2] His family moved to Boston, where Hale was educated in the public schools and graduated from The English High School in 1901.[1][2] He then attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1905.[1] He studied law at Harvard Law School and with attorney Albert S. Batchellor[1][3] and was admitted to the bar in 1908.[1] He began to practice in Littleton, then moved to Laconia in 1912 and continued to practice.[1]

Career

Hale served as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor for Belknap County from 1915 to 1920.[1] Hale was member of the Laconia board of education from 1916 to 1925 and was chairman 1918–1925.[1] He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention in 1918 and a member and secretary of the New Hampshire Tax Commission from 1920 to 1925.[1]

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth congress and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses.[4] He served as congressman from the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1925, until his death.[4]

Death

Hale was taken ill while returning to the United States from London aboard the SS President Harding after attending an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Bucharest.[5] He was removed from the ship when it arrived on October 22, 1931, and taken to the Brooklyn Naval Hospital.[5] He was diagnosed with pneumonia and died a few hours later of a cerebral embolism.[5] He was interred at Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.[6]

Family

He married Alice N. Armstrong on March 29, 1913.[7] They were the parents of two sons, Fletcher (1915–1998), a captain in the U.S. Navy,[2][8] and Robert Armstrong (1918–1945), a captain and B-26 Marauder pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II who died after his plane was shot down near Frankfurt.[2][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Pillsbury, Hobart, New Hampshire Secretary of State (1927). Manual for the General Court. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Department of State. p. 59.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "Cong. Fletcher Hale Dies". Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, NH. October 23, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved March 2, 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  3. ^ Harvard Alumni Directory. 1919. 1919. p. 299. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  4. ^ a b Dodge, Andrew R.; Koed, Betty K., eds. (2005). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, Inclusive. Government Printing Office. pp. 1172–1173. ISBN 9780160731761. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  5. ^ a b c "Lawmaker Dies In Naval Hospital". Bluefield Daily Telegraph. New York. Associated Press. October 23, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved March 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Spencer, Thomas E. (1998). Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1998 - Reference. p. 222. ISBN 9780806348230. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
  7. ^ "Wedding Announcement: Hale-Armstrong". The Boston Globe. Boston, MA. March 30, 1913. p. 9. Retrieved March 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Gardner, Len (August 1, 1998). "Remembering: Fletcher Hale" (PDF). Newsletter of the USS Reid Reunion Group. Palmyra, VA. pp. 2–3.
  9. ^ Volante, Enric (May 28, 1995). "Killed in Action: Tucsonan Tracks Down Dad's War History". Arizona Daily Star. pp. 1, 18. Retrieved March 2, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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