page_title: John P. Hale
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: John P. Hale / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Lucy Hale, the daughter of U.S. Senator John P. Hale and the secret fiancee of John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1865). The photo was found on Booth's body after he was killed by pursuing Federal troops on 26 April 1865.
context_page_description: John Parker Hale was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865. He began his Congressional career as a Democrat, but helped establish the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and eventually joined the Republican Party.
  Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, Hale established a legal practice in Dover, New Hampshire after graduating from Bowdoin College. Hale won election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1832 and served as the United States Attorney for New Hampshire under President Andrew Jackson and President Martin Van Buren. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1842 but was denied the party's nomination in 1844 due to his opposition to the annexation of Texas. After losing his seat, he continued to campaign against slavery and won election to the Senate in 1846 as an Independent Democrat. In the Senate, he strongly opposed the Mexican–American War and continued to speak against slavery.
context_section_description: On September 2, 1834 Hale married Lucy Hill Lambert (1814–1902) in Berwick, Maine.  They were the parents of two daughters, Elizabeth (Lizzie) (1835–1895) and Lucy (1841–1915).
  Elizabeth Hale first married Edward Kinsley (1825–1888).  Their only child died shortly after birth. Her second husband was William Henry 'Harry' Jacques (1847–1916).
  Lucy Lambert Hale was secretly betrothed in 1865 to John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin.  Booth had a picture of Lucy Hale with him when he was shot and killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett on April 26, 1865. Lucy Hale eventually married Senator William E. Chandler.
caption: The picture of Lucy Hale found on the body of John Wilkes Booth
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