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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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  3. HALE, John P., 1806-1873, New Hampshire, statesman, diplomat, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator. Member of the anti-slavery Liberty Party. President of the Free Soil Party, 1852.

  4. The only biography of John P. Hale of New Hampshire, the first outspoken antislavery advocate elected to the U.S. Senate during the widespread realignment of political loyalties in the 1840’s, this book traces the rise of the movement and examines in detail Hale’s role as one of the early leaders of the political antislavery campaign in the ...

  5. When the salt business was at its height, Dr. Hale was the premier producer, turning out 420,000 bushels in 1850, the year the valley made 3,000,000 bushels of salt. Hale led in forming the salt trust, the first trust in America.

  6. JOHN P. HALE AND THE LIBERTY PARTY, 1847-1848 RICHARD H. SEWELL O N June 9, 1846, a cannon atop Sand Hill in Concord, New Hampshire, boomed the news of John P. Hale's election to the United States Senate. For fourteen years a loyal, hard-working Jacksonian, the friend of Franklin Pierce, Hale had

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  8. The new Minister to Spain was among the visitors to President Lincoln at the White House on the morning of the day he was assassinated. Hale’s daughter was a close friend of assassin John Wilkes Booth – who apparently obtained a pass to attend President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural through Hale.