Artemas Hale

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Artemas Hale (born October 20, 1783 in Winchendon , Worcester County , Massachusetts , †  August 3, 1882 in Bridgewater , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1849 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Artemas Hale received only a limited education. He first worked on a farm and then taught as a teacher in Hingham between 1804 and 1814 . Later he made machines for cotton ginning. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1824 and 1842 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives on several occasions . In 1833 and 1834 he also sat in the State Senate . In the mid-1830s he became a member of the Whig Party, which was then formed . In 1853 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Massachusetts Constitution .

In the congressional election of 1844 , Hale was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Henry Williams on March 4, 1845 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1849 . These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War . After his time in the US House of Representatives, Hale worked in agriculture. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he became a member of the Republican Party founded in 1854 . In the presidential election of 1864 he was one of the electors to officially elect President Abraham Lincoln to a second term. Then he withdrew from politics. Artemas Hale died in Bridgewater on August 3, 1882.

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