Fletcher Hale

Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.

Fletcher Hale
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 1st district
In office March 4, 1925 – October 22, 1931
Preceded by	William Nathaniel Rogers
Succeeded by	William Nathaniel Rogers
Personal details
Born	(1883-01-22)January 22, 1883 Portland, Maine, USA
Died	October 22, 1931(1931-10-22) (aged 48) Brooklyn Naval Hospital Brooklyn, New York, USA
Resting place	Union Cemetery Laconia, New Hampshire
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Alice Norma Armstrong Hale ​ ​ (m. 1913)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Dartmouth College
Occupation	Lawyer
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Early life

Born in Portland, Maine, on January 22, 1883,^[1] Hale was the son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale.^[2] His family moved to Boston, where Hale was educated in the public schools and graduated from The English High School in 1901.^[1][2] He then attended Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1905.^[1] He studied law at Harvard Law School and with attorney Albert S. Batchellor^[1][3] and was admitted to the bar in 1908.^[1] He began to practice in Littleton, then moved to Laconia in 1912 and continued to practice.^[1]

Career

Hale served as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor for Belknap County from 1915 to 1920.^[1] Hale was member of the Laconia board of education from 1916 to 1925 and was chairman 1918–1925.^[1] He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention in 1918 and a member and secretary of the New Hampshire Tax Commission from 1920 to 1925.^[1]

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth congress and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses.^[4] He served as congressman from the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1925, until his death.^[4]

Death

Hale was taken ill while returning to the United States from London aboard the SS President Harding after attending an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Bucharest.^[5] He was removed from the ship when it arrived on October 22, 1931, and taken to the Brooklyn Naval Hospital.^[5] He was diagnosed with pneumonia and died a few hours later of a cerebral embolism.^[5] He was interred at Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.^[6]

Family

He married Alice N. Armstrong on March 29, 1913.^[7] They were the parents of two sons, Fletcher (1915–1998), a captain in the U.S. Navy,^[2][8] and Robert Armstrong (1918–1945), a captain and B-26 Marauder pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II who died after his plane was shot down near Frankfurt.^[2][9]

See also

• Biography portal

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)