Charles Milby Dale (March 8, 1893 – September 28, 1978) was an American

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and Republican

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from

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. He was the 66th

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, serving from 1945 to 1949.

Early career

Dale was born in 1893 in

Browns Valley, Minnesota Browns Valley is a city in Traverse County, Minnesota, United States, adjacent to the South Dakota border. The population was 558 at the 2020 census. Browns Valley lies along the Little Minnesota River between the northern end of Big Stone ...

, on the

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—

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border. He attended the

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, and then the

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; while in law school he served as Note Editor of the first volume of the ''

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'' and graduated in 1917.Remember Charles Dale
, ''Fletcher Files: Alumni Newsletter of the Minnesota Law Review'', Accessed May 20, 2008. After law school he began a legal practice back in Brown's Valley, but upon the

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' entry into

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he left to enlist in the United States Army. Dale was assigned to the

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stationed in

.History
, The Governor's House, Accessed May 20, 2008.

Political career

After the war, Dale decided to remain in Portsmouth and open his legal practice there. He soon found his way into politics; he was first elected city solicitor in 1921 and later

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from 1926 to 1928. He went back to legal practice but was elected in 1933 to the

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, where he served as president. In 1937 he was elected to the

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. He returned to the state senate, then again served at the Mayor of Portsmouth from 1943 to 1944. He entered the Governor's race and during the Republican

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defeated

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Governor Robert Blood. Dale then went on to win the general election and win reelection for a second two-year term. Dale retired from politics in 1948 to work in banking and radio in New Hampshire. He died in 1978 in Portsmouth.

References

External links

Dale at New Hampshire's Division of Historic Resources
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Early career

Political career

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