Hale K. Darling

Hale Knight Darling (January 26, 1869 – September 18, 1940) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as the state's Lieutenant Governor from 1915 to 1917.

Hale K. Darling

Biography

Hale Knight Darling was born in Corinth, Vermont on January 26, 1869.[1] He was employed in Massachusetts by the Fitchburg Railroad and worked as a reporter on the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel before studying law at the University of North Carolina. He was admitted to the bar after his 1894 graduation, became an attorney, and practiced in Chelsea, Vermont.[2]

A Republican, Darling was Orange County State's Attorney from 1896 to 1900, a member of the Vermont Board of Bar Examiners from 1901 to 1903, and Clerk of the Orange County Court from 1905 to 1921.[3][4]

Darling served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908. In 1905 he was appointed Chairman of the Vermont Library Commission, and from 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the Commission to revise Vermont's Statutes. He served in the Vermont Senate from 1912 to 1914.[5][6]

In 1914 he was elected Lieutenant Governor and served from 1915 to 1917, also serving again as a member of the Commission to Revise Vermont's Statutes.[7][8]

Darling served in the Vermont Senate again from 1919 to 1921. In 1937 he was Chairman of a commission that reviewed and recommended reforms of Vermont's court system.[9]

Darling died in Chelsea on September 18, 1940.[10] He is buried in Chelsea's Highland Cemetery.[11]

Family

In 1896, Darling married Maybelle Maud Hyde; they were the parents of four children who lived to adulthood.[12]

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References
  1. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, edited by Hiram Carleton, 1903, pages 466 to 467
  2. Alumni History of the University of North Carolina, published by the university, 1924, page 152
  3. Manual of the Legislature of Vermont, by Vermont General Assembly, 1904, page 123
  4. Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, edited by Prentiss Cutler Dodge, 1912, page 164
  5. Biennial Report of the Board of Library Commissioners of Vermont, by Vermont Board of Library Commissioners, 1906, page 4
  6. Who's Who in New England, published by A. N. Marquis, Chicago, Volume 1, 1909, page 282
  7. The American Bar, by James Clark Fifield, 1918, page 671
  8. Lieutenant Governors, Terms of Service Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, Office of the Vermont Secretary of State, Archives and Records Administration, 2011, page 2
  9. Vermont Legislative Directory, published by Vermont Secretary of State, 1939, page 609
  10. Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008, entry for Hale Knight Darling, accessed December 27, 2011
  11. Gravestone photos by contributor Bill McKern, Find A Grave web site, May 26, 2008
  12. Stone, Arthur F. (1929). The Vermont of Today. III. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 29.
Political offices
Preceded by
Frank E. Howe		 Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
1915–1917		 Succeeded by
Roger W. Hulburd
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