Harry H. Dale

Harry H. Dale.

Harry Howard Dale (December 3, 1868 – November 17, 1935) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Life

Born in New York City, Dale moved with his parents to Brooklyn in 1870. He attended the public schools of Brooklyn and New York Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar May 14, 1891, and commenced practice in Brooklyn, New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 15th D.) in 1898, 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905. He served as attorney for the State comptroller in 1911 and 1912.

Dale was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, to January 6, 1919, when he resigned having been appointed judge of the magistrate's court in 1919. Reappointed in 1929 and served from January 7, 1919, to July 21, 1931. He was appointed judge for the court of special sessions on July 22, 1931, and served until his death in Bellmore, New York, on November 17, 1935. He remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in Fresh Pond Road Crematory, Brooklyn, New York.

References

• Harry H. Dale at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress