State: | New York |
District: | 37th |
Predecessor: | Lewis Henry |
Successor: | W. Sterling Cole |
Birth Name: | Gale Hamilton Stalker |
Birth Date: | 7 November 1889 |
Birth Place: | Long Eddy, Sullivan County, New York, U.S. |
Death Place: | Palm Bay, Florida, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Term Start: | March 4, 1923 |
Term End: | January 3, 1935 |
Resting Place: | Hillside Cemetery, Ormond Beach, Florida, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Lackawanna College |
Profession: | Banker Businessman |
Gale Hamilton Stalker (November 7, 1889 – November 4, 1985) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Gale H. Stalker was born in Long Eddy in Sullivan County, New York on November 7, 1889. He studied at Scranton Business College in Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is now Lackawanna College. He then moved to Elmira, New York.[1] [2]
Stalker was active in lumber and oil and gas businesses, banking, and other ventures. During World War I, he was nicknamed "Tent Peg" because his lumber company filled a contract to provide millions of tent poles and pegs to the United States Army.[3]
He was elected to Congress in 1922 and served from March 4, 1923 until January 3, 1935.
He died on November 4, 1985, in Palm Bay, Florida and was buried at Hillside Cemetery in Ormond Beach, Florida.[4]