Porter H. Dale

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The son of Lieutenant Governor George N. Dale and Helen (Hinman) Dale, Porter Dale was born in Island Pond, Vermont on March 1, 1867.Consolidated Publishing, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ojlMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA97 Who's Who in the Nation's Capital], 1921, page 97

Dale attended public schools in his hometown and went on to study at Eastman Business College. Later he studied in Philadelphia and Boston, and he spent two years studying elocution and oratory with James Edward Murdoch, a Shakespearean scholar and actor.John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, Ralph H. Orth, editors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA100 The Vermont Encyclopedia], 2003, page 100

Upon completion of his education, he taught school at the Green Mountain Seminary in Waterbury, Vermont, and at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Dale then studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and practiced in Island Pond.William Hartley Jeffrey, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PkYjAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA10 Successful Vermonters: a modern gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties, Vermont], 1904, pages 12-13 After the death of his father, Dale practiced in partnership with Harry B. Amey.{{cite news |date=December 7, 1949 |title=Harry Amey, 80, Dies; Former U.S. District Attorney |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/198046659/ |work=The Burlington Free Press |location=Burlington, VT |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |page=2 |ref={{sfnRef|"Harry Amey, 80, Dies"}}}}

Dale served as chief deputy collector of customs at Island Pond from 1897 to 1910, when he resigned and was appointed judge of the Brighton municipal court.James Terry White, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8xfYAAAAMAAJ&q=%22dale,+porter+hinman%22+customs The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography], Volume 44, 1967, page 371 He also served in the state militia as colonel on the staff Governor Josiah Grout, and he was also involved in the lumber, electric, and banking businesses.Dodd, Mead and Company, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XYhMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22dale,+porter+hinman%22+lumber+paper The New International Year Book], 1934, page 209

In 1900 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the election for Vermont's Second District seat in the U.S. House.The Vermonter magazine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Uo8eAQAAMAAJ&dq=porter+dale+frank+plumley+1898&pg=RA1-PA161 Candidates for Congress in the Second District], April, 1900, pages 159-161 Dale was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1910 and served two two-year terms.

In 1914, Dale was a candidate for the Republican U.S. House nomination in Vermont's 2nd District.{{cite news |date=September 9, 1914 |title=Porter H. Dale Wins |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022871/1914-09-09/ed-1/seq-1/ |work=Orleans County Monitor |location=Barton, VT |via=Library of Congress: Chronicling America; Historic American Newspapers |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|"Porter H. Dale Wins"}}}} He defeated Alexander Dunnett on the 21st ballot at the state party convention, and went on to win the general election.{{sfn|"Porter H. Dale Wins"|page=1}} He served from March 4, 1915, to August 11, 1923, when he resigned to become a candidate for the United States Senate.Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130503063646/http://vermont-archives.org/govhistory/officials/pdf/us_repterms.pdf Representatives to Congress, Terms of Service]}}, 2008, page 4 Dale served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury during the Sixty-Sixth and Sixty-Seventh Congresses.New York Times, [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/04/10/98666889.pdf Republicans Name House Committees], April 10, 1921

Dale was campaigning for the Senate on the night of August 2, 1923, when he heard of the death of President Warren G. Harding. Calvin Coolidge was staying at the home of his father John Calvin Coolidge Sr. in Plymouth, Vermont, and Dale traveled to the Coolidge home to ensure that Coolidge was informed and to offer his assistance. By most accounts, it was Dale who suggested persistently that Coolidge be sworn in immediately to ensure continuity in the presidency, and Dale witnessed Coolidge receiving the oath of office from John Coolidge early on the morning of August 3. Dale drafted and revised a written account of this event, which his grandson Porter H. Dale II and great-grandson Christopher Dale later discovered and published in the Journal of Vermont History in 1994.{{Cite magazine |last=Dale |first=Porter H. |date=1994 |title=The Calvin Coolidge Inauguration Revisited: An Eyewitness Account by Congressman Porter H. Dale |url=https://vermonthistory.org/journal/62/CoolidgeInauguration.pdf |access-date=2025-02-13 |magazine=Vermont History |pages=214–222 |volume=62}}Bill Harris, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q8daE8a_KAoC&dq=calvin+coolidge+oath+plymouth+porter+dale&pg=PA456 The First Ladies Fact Book], 2012, page 456Glenn D. Kittler, [https://books.google.com/books?ei=Rdf2UaOmJ9Ol4APT44CICg&id=XZ4MAQAAMAAJ&dq=porter+dale+swearing+in+calvin+coolidge&q=porter+dale Hail to the Chief!: The Inauguration Days of our Presidents], 1965, page 167

Dale was elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 1923, for the remainder of the term ending March 3, 1927, which had been made vacant by the death of William P. Dillingham.New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1923/11/04/archives/vermont-to-elect-a-new-us-senator-porter-h-dale-will-probably-be.html Vermont to Elect a New U.S. Senator; Porter H. Dale Will Probably Be Chosen to Fill Dillingham's Unexpired Term], November 4, 1923 Dale was reelected in 1926 and 1932, and served from November 7, 1923, until his death. He was chairman of the Committee on Civil Service (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses).

Dale died at his summer home on Lake Willoughby in Westmore, Vermont on October 6, 1933.New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1933/10/22/archives/vermont-to-fill-senate-vacancy-seat-of-late-porter-h-dale-is-sought.html Vermont to Fill Senate Vacancy; Seat of Late Porter H. Dale Is Sought by Representative E.W. Gibson], October 22, 1933United Press, Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7v9BAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U6oMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2214,870111&dq=porter-h-dale+dies&hl=en Senator Dale, Vermont, Dies], October 8, 1933Boston Globe, [https://archive.today/20130730002254/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2019162172.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Oct+07,+1933&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=U.+S.+SENATOR+DALE+DEAD+IN+VERMONT&pqatl=google U.S. Senator Dale Dead in Vermont], October 7, 1933 He was buried in Lakeside Cemetery in Island Pond.Esther Buck Hamilton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fGsjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22porter+h.+dale%22+lakeside+cemetery Vermont is a State I Love], 1976, page 41

In 1891, Dale married Amy K. Bartlett (b. 1861) of Island Pond. She died on August 1, 1907, and in 1910 he married Augusta M. Wood (1876-1961) of Boston. With his first wife, Dale was the father of Marian (1892-1975), Timothy (1894-1977), Amy (1895-1938), and George (1898-1962).

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