Harry H. Dale

Harry Howard Dale ( born December 3, 1868 in New York City; † November 17, 1935 in Bellmore, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1913 and 1919 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Howard Dale was born about three years after the end of the Civil War in New York City. His family moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn. He attended public schools and the New York Law School. His admission to the bar he received on 14 May 1891, then began practicing in Brooklyn. Between 1899 and 1904 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was in the years 1911 and 1912 worked as an attorney for the State Comptroller.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 Dale was the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank E. Wilson on March 4, 1913. He was re-elected twice in a row. On January 6, 1919, he resigned his Congress seat to take up appointment as a Judge of the Magistrates' Court.

He was reappointed in 1929 and served from January 7, 1919 to July 21, 1931. On 22 July 1931 he was Court of Special Sessions appointed a judge of the New York, a position which he held until his death on 17 November 1935 held in Bellmore. His body was cremated and the ashes interred at the Fresh Pond Crematory Road in Brooklyn.