Education
He attended the public schools of Brooklyn and New York Law School.
United States representative politician
He attended the public schools of Brooklyn and New York Law School.
He was admitted to the New York bar May 14, 1891, and commenced practice in Brooklyn, New New York He served as attorney for the State comptroller in 1911 and 1912. Dale was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, to January 6, 1919, when he resigned having been appointed judge of the magistrate"s court in 1919.
Reappointed in 1929 and served from January 7, 1919, to July 21, 1931.
He was appointed judge for the court of special sessions on July 22, 1931, and served until his death in Bellmore, New York, on November 17, 1935. He remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in Fresh Pond Road Crematory, Brooklyn, New New York
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Company, 15th Doctorate) in 1898, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905.