HALE, JOHN PARKER (1806-1873), American states man, was born at Rochester, N.H., on March 31, 1806. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1827 and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 183o. In 1843-45 he was a Democratic member of the national House of Representatives. In Jan. he refused in a public statement to obey a resolution of the State legislature directing him and his New Hampshire associates in Congress to support the cause of the annexation of Texas, a Demo cratic measure which Hale regarded as being distinctively in the interest of slavery. The Democratic State convention was at once reassembled, Hale was denounced, and his renomination was withdrawn. Hale then set out in the face of apparently hopeless odds to win over his State to the anti-slavery cause. The re markable canvass which he conducted is known in the history of New Hampshire as the "Hale Storm of 1845." The election re sulted in the choice of a legislature controlled by the Whigs and the independent Democrats, Hale himself being chosen as a member of the State house of representatives, of which in 1846 he was speaker. He is remembered, however, chiefly for his long service in the United States Senate, of which he was a member from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865. At first he was the only out-and-out anti-slavery senator, but in 1849 Salmon P. Chase and William H. Seward, and in 1851 Charles Sumner joined him, and the anti-slavery cause became for the first time a force to be reckoned with in that body. He was one of the organizers of the Republican Party, and during the Civil War was an eloquent supporter of the Union and chairman of the Senate naval committee. From 1865 to 1869 he was United States minister to Spain. He died at Dover, N.H., on Dec. 19, In 1892 a statue of Hale was erected in front of the capitol in Concord, New Hampshire.