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Porter Hinman Dale (March 1, 1867October 6, 1933) was a member of both the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate from Vermont. ==Early life and career== The son of Lieutenant Governor George N. Dale, Porter Dale was born in Island Pond, Vermont on March 1, 1867.〔Consolidated Publishing, (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, (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, (Successful Vermonters: a modern gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties, Vermont ), 1904, pages 12-13〕 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, (The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography ), Volume 44, 1967, page 371〕 He later 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, (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, (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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Porter H. Dale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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