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John Parker Hale (March 31, 1806 – November 19, 1873) was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865.
John Parker Hale was an American lawyer, senator, and reformer who was prominent in the antislavery movement. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Bowdoin College, Hale went on to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He became a successful jury lawyer in Dover, N.H., and was known for.
A book review of Richard Sewell's biography of John P. Hale, the first antislavery senator from New Hampshire. The book explores Hale's political career, his abolitionist views, and his conflicts with the Democratic Party and the South.
May 12, 2024 · Among the new senators seated that day was 41-year-old John P. Hale of Dover, N.H., who was beginning his six-year term. The second senator from the state was Democrat Charles G. Atherton of...
John P. Hale was a New Hampshire Senator who switched from Democrat to Republican and became a critic of the Lincoln administration. He was appointed Minister to Spain after losing re-election in 1864, and fought with Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles over naval affairs.
John Parker Hale. BORN: March 31, 1806 Rochester, New Hampshire. DIED: March 31, 1806 Rochester, New Hampshire. EDUCATION: Phillips Exeter Academy Bowdoin College (BA), 1827. POLITICAL PARTY: Democratic (Before 1847) Liberty (1847–1848) Free Soil (1848–1854) Opposition (1854–1855) Republican (1855–1873) HIGHLIGHTS: 1830: Admitted to the ...
John Parker Hale (March 31, 1806 - November 19, 1873) was born in Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire. He father died when Hale was thirteen, and his mother moved the surviving children to Maine. She scraped up enough money to send Hale to Phillips Exeter Academy and Bowdoin College in 1827.
