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Political party
  
Religion
  
Episcopalian

Role
  
Politician

Party
  
Resigned
  
October 22, 1931

Occupation
  
LawyerPolitician

Name
  
Fletcher Hale

Died
  
October 22, 1931

Succeeded by
  
William Nathaniel Rogers

Resting place
  
Preceded by
  
William Nathaniel Rogers

Born
  
January 22, 1883Portland, Cumberland CountyMaine, USA (
1883-01-22
)

Spouse(s)
  
Alice Norma Armstrong Hale

Alma mater
  
Dartmouth CollegeHarvard University

Education
  
Dartmouth College, Harvard University

Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New Hampshire.

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Early life

Born in Portland, Maine, Hale attended the public schools there. He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1905. He studied law at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in 1908 . He began to practice in Littleton, then moved to Laconia in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession.

Career

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

Elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth congress and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses; Hale served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1925, until his death.

Death

Hale died of pneumonia and cerebral embollism in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on October 22, 1931. He is interred at Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.

Family life

Son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale, he married Alice N. Armstrong on March 29, 1913.

References

Fletcher Hale Wikipedia


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