Hale, Franklin D
lawyer, state senator, was born March 7, 1854, in Barnett, Vt. He was educated at Northfield high school and St. Johnsbury academy, and graduated from the law department of Michigan university in 1877, afterward practicing law at Lewiston, Maine. He was state's attorney for Essex county from 1883-91, with the exception of one term. He was a member of the house of representatives in 1884, and of the senate in 1886; was elected auditor of Vermont in 1892, and re-elected in 1894 and 1896. In 1881 he settled in Lunenburg, Vt., where he has attained success as an able lawyer.