Franklin D. Hale
Franklin D. Hale was a Vermont politician who served as State Auditor and want on to a career as a diplomat.Biography
Franklin Darius Hale was born in Barnet, Vermont March 7, 1854. He was educated in Concord, Vermont and attended high school, first in Northfield, and then at St. Johnsbury Academy.
In 1877 Hale graduated from the law program at the University of Michigan and became an attorney, first in Lewiston, Maine, and then in Lunenburg.
A Republican, Hale served as Essex County State's Attorney from 1883 to 1889. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1884 to 1885, in the Vermont Senate from 1886 to 1887, and in the Vermont House again from 1898 to 1901.
From 1891 to 1892 Hale was town site trustee for Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma Territory. Town site trustees were appointees of the Secretary of the Interior, and were responsible to subdivide federally held land into townships as new white settlers moved into the territory.
Hale served as Vermont's Auditor of Accounts from 1892 to 1898.
From 1899 to 1900 Hale was Chief Clerk to the Treasurer of Cuba.
In the early 1900s Hale passed the exam to join the diplomatic corps and embarked on a consular career. He served as U.S. Consul in Coaticook, Quebec, Canada from 1902 to 1908. He served in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada from 1908 to 1909.
Hale was appointed Consul in Trinidad in 1909 and served until 1912.
From 1912 to 1917 Hale was Consul in Huddersfield, England.
Hale was also a poet, and authored 1929's Reveries of Vermont.
Hale died in Lyndon Center, Vermont on April 21, 1940.
