James Tracy Hale

James Tracy Hale ( born October 14, 1810 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † April 6, 1865 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1865 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Hale attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1832 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Bellefonte in this profession. In 1851 he became Chief Judge of the 20th Judicial District of the State of. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Hale was in the 15th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Allison White on March 4, 1859. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 three legislative periods. Since 1863 he represented there as an independent Republican 18th district of his state. Also since 1863, he headed the Committee on Claims. Hales time as an MP was shaped by the events immediately before the Civil War and in 1861 by the war itself. He died on April 6, 1865, just a month after his resignation from Congress, in Bellefonte, where he was also buried.