Career
He was succeeded by Christopher Latham Sholes, also a Free Soiler. Obed P. Hale, son of Obed and Mindwell Hale, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1809. At the age of seventeen he moved to Ohio, and became a farmer.
In 1842, the Hales came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Paris in Kenosha County.
Hale was active in local politics, serving as a justice of the peace for about twenty-five years and holding other minor offices. When Kenosha County was separated from Racine County in April 1850, he was elected to the State Assembly running as a (Free Soil) Democrat.
In 1870, he left Paris for Kenosha, where he resided for the rest of his life. He died in 1892.