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John Parker Hale ( March 31 , 1806 - November 19 , 1873 ) was an American Politician . Hale was born in , Hale lived and practiced law in Dover, NH ; his house is now part of the ''Woodman Institute,'' a local museum. He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress , serving from March 4 , 1843 to March 3 , 1845 . He was later elected as a Free Soil candidate to the United States Senate in 1846 and served from March 4 , 1847 , to March 3 , 1853 . He was among the strongest opponents of the Mexican-American War in the Senate. Hale was an unsuccessful candidate for President Of The United States on the Free Soil ticket in 1852 . (See U.S. Presidential Election, 1852 .) He was again elected to the Senate in 1855 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles G. Atherton. He was re-elected in 1859 , in total serving from July 30 , 1855 , to March 3 , 1865 . He served as the chair of the Senate Republican Conference until 1862 . Interestingly, Hale's daughter Lucy Hale was betrothed to John Wilkes Booth , Abraham Lincoln 's assassin. Booth had a picture of Lucy Hale with him when he was killed in 1865. {Link without Title} John Parker Hale is buried in Dover at the Pine Hill Cemetery. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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