Salma Hale

Salma Hale ( born March 7, 1787 Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, † November 19, 1866 in Somerville, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After leaving school, Salma Hale worked as a printer. In 1805 he published the newspaper " Walpole Political Observatory ". He then studied law. Admitted to the bar it was carried out in 1834. Prior to took place in 1813, moving to Keene Hale was an administrative assistant at the Court of Appeal in Cheshire County.

Politically Hale was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816, which were held all across the state, he was the fourth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he succeeded by Roger Vose of the oppositional Federalist Parteian on March 4, 1817. Since he resigned in 1818 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1819.

Between 1817 and 1834 Hale was Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. In the years 1823, 1828 and 1844, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. Between 1824 and 1825, and from 1845 to 1846 he was a member of the State Senate. Salma Hale was after the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the 1814 British -American war, secretary of a committee which established the northeastern boundary between the United States and Canada. Hale also published several textbooks on the then fledgling U.S. history. He died in November 1866 in Massachusetts and was buried in Keene.