Salma Hale

Salma Hale (born March 7, 1787 in Alstead , Cheshire County , New Hampshire , † November 19, 1866 in Somerville , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

In addition to his political activities, he wrote the book History of the United States of America, which was popular with contemporaries .

Career

After finishing school, Salma Hale worked as a printer. In 1805 he published the Walpole Political Observatory newspaper. Then he studied law. He was only admitted to the bar in 1834. Before he moved to Keene in 1813, Hale was an administrative clerk at the Court of Appeal in Cheshire County.

Politically, Hale was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1816, which were held nationwide, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the fourth mandate from New Hampshire . There he took over on March 4, 1817, succeeding Roger Vose of the opposition Federalist Party . Since he refused to run again in 1818, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1819 .

Between 1817 and 1834, Hale was an administrator at the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1823, 1828, and 1844 . Between 1824 and 1825 and from 1845 to 1846 he was a member of the State Senate . After the Peace of Ghent , which ended the British-American War in 1814, Salma Hale was secretary of a commission that established the north-eastern border between the United States and Canada . Hale also published some textbooks on the then young US history. He died in Massachusetts in November 1866 and was buried in Keene.

Web links

• Salma Hale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Salma Hale in the database of Find a Grave (English)