Fletcher Hale

Fletcher Hale ( born January 22, 1883 in Portland, Maine; † 22 October 1931 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1931 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fletcher Hale attended the common schools and then studied until 1905 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1908 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Littleton (New Hampshire). In 1912 he moved his residence and his law firm to Laconia. In 1915, he was the legal representative of the city. Between 1915 and 1920, Hale served as district attorney in Belknap County.

Hale was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1916 and 1925 he sat in his State Board of Education, since 1918, he was its chairman. In 1918 he was a delegate at a meeting for the revision of the constitution of New Hampshire. He also was a member of the 1920 and 1925, the Tax Commission of the State of. 1924 Hale was elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1925, the successor to the Democrats William Nathaniel Rogers, whom he had defeated in the election. After he was confirmed in the following elections in each of its mandate, Hale could remain until his death on October 22, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York in Congress. When that became necessary after his death election won his predecessor, William Rogers, who hence Hales successor.