Artemas Hale

Artemas Hale ( born October 20, 1783 in Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts; † August 3, 1882 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1849 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Artemas Hale received only a limited education. He worked on a farm and then taught 1804-1814 as a teacher in Hingham. Later he turned to cotton ginning machinery ago. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1824 and 1842 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the years 1833 and 1834 he was also in the state Senate. Mid-1830s he became a member of the Whig Party created at that time. In 1853 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Hale was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Williams on March 4, 1845. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1849 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Hale operated in agriculture. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In the presidential election of 1864 he was an elected official of the electors of President Abraham Lincoln to a second term. After he retired from politics. Artemas Hale died on August 3, 1882 in Bridgewater.