Fletcher Hale | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew Hampshire's1st district | |
| In office March 4, 1925 – October 22, 1931 | |
| Preceded by | William Nathaniel Rogers |
| Succeeded by | William Nathaniel Rogers |
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| Born | (1883-01-22)January 22, 1883 |
| Died | October 22, 1931(1931-10-22) (aged 48) Brooklyn Naval Hospital Brooklyn, New York,USA |
| Resting place | Union Cemetery Laconia, New Hampshire |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 – October 22, 1931) was an American politician and aUnited States representative fromNew Hampshire.
Born inPortland, Maine, on January 22, 1883,[1] Hale was the son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale.[2] His family moved toBoston, where Hale was educated in the public schools and graduated fromThe English High School in 1901.[1][2] He then attendedDartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1905.[1] He studied law atHarvard Law School and with attorney Albert S. Batchellor[1][3] and wasadmitted to the bar in 1908.[1] He began to practice inLittleton, then moved toLaconia in 1912 and continued to practice.[1]
Hale served as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor forBelknap 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 aRepublican to theSixty-ninth congress and reelected to the three succeeding Congresses.[4] He served ascongressman from the state ofNew Hampshire from March 4, 1925, until his death.[4]
Hale was taken ill while returning to the United States fromLondon aboard the SSPresident Harding after attending anInter-Parliamentary Union conference inBucharest.[5] He was removed from the ship when it arrived on October 22, 1931, and taken to theBrooklyn Naval Hospital.[5] He was diagnosed withpneumonia and died a few hours later of a cerebralembolism.[5] He wasinterred at Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.[6]
He married Alice N. Armstrong on March 29, 1913.[7] They were the parents of two sons, Fletcher (1915–1998), acaptain in theU.S. Navy,[2][8] and Robert Armstrong (1918–1945), acaptain andB-26 Marauder pilot in theUnited States Army Air Forces duringWorld War II who died after his plane was shot down nearFrankfurt.[2][9]
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