Background
Hale, Salma was born on March 7, 1787 in Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. Son of David Hale.
United States representative politician
Hale, Salma was born on March 7, 1787 in Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. Son of David Hale.
Children include George Silsbee.
He became apprentice as a printer at the age of thirteen and in 1805 edited the Walpole Political Observatory. He was a student of law with Roger Vose, Samuel Dinsmoor, and Phineas Handerson. Hale was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas of Cheshire County.
He moved to Keene, Cheshire CountyNew Hampshire in 1813. In 1814, he served as the secretary to the commission appointed under the Treaty of Ghent for determining the northeastern boundary line of the United States. Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress, Hale served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1818. After leaving Congress, he was clerk of the New Hampshire Supreme Court 1817-1834. He was admitted to the bar in October 1834.
He also served in the New Hampshire Senate in 1824, 1825, and again in 1845 and 1846. Hale died in Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on November 19, 1866 (age 79 years, 257 days). He is interred at Woodland Cemetery, Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1823, 1828, and again in 1844.
Children include George Silsbee.