Nathan W. Hale

Nathan W. Hale

Nathan Wesley Hale (born February 11, 1860 in Gate City , Scott County , Virginia , †  September 16, 1941 in Alhambra , California ) was an American politician . Between 1905 and 1909 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Nathan Hale attended public schools in Nicholasville and Kingsley Academy in Tennessee. In 1876, at the age of 16, he was a primary school teacher at Hales's Mill, Virginia. In 1878 he moved to Knoxville , Tennessee, where he worked in a gardening and haberdashery store. He also worked in agriculture and banking. Politically, Hale joined the Republican Party . Between 1891 and 1893 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee ; from 1893 to 1895 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1902 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Congress elections.

In the congressional elections of 1904 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Henry R. Gibson on March 4, 1905 . After re-election in 1906, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1909 . In 1908 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. In the same year he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1908 to 1912, Hale was a member of the Republican National Committee . From 1909 he lived in Los Angeles , where he worked in the oil and real estate business. He spent the last 30 years of his life there. He died on September 16, 1941 in the Alhambra near Los Angeles.

Web links

• Nathan W. Hale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathan W. Hale in the database of Find a Grave (English)