Fletcher Hale
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Fletcher Hale (January 22, 1883 - October 22, 1931) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Portland, Maine and attended the public schools there. He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1905. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Littleton, New Hampshire. Later, he moved to Laconia, New Hampshire in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession and served as city solicitor of Laconia in 1915 and as solicitor for Belknap County, New Hampshire 1915-1920.
Hale served as member of the board of education 1916-1925, serving as chairman 1918-1925. He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention in 1918 and a member of the New Hampshire Tax Commission 1920-1925. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in Brooklyn, New York Naval Hospital in 1931. He was buried in Union Cemetery, Laconia, New Hampshire.
