James Tracy Hale

Who was James Tracy Hale?

James Tracy Hale was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

James T. Hale was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He was appointed president judge of the twentieth judicial district in 1851.

Hale was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and as an Independent Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Claims during the Thirty-eighth Congress. He died in Bellefonte in 1865. Interment in City Cemetery.