| Hale K. Darling | |
| Office1: | Lieutenant Governor of Vermont |
| Term Start1: | 1915 |
| Term End1: | 1917 |
| Predecessor1: | Frank E. Howe |
| Successor1: | Roger W. Hulburd |
| Office2: | Member of the Vermont Senate from Orange County |
| Term Start2: | 1919 |
| Term End2: | 1921 |
| Predecessor2: | Fred W. Preston |
| Successor2: | John C. Sherburne |
| Term Start3: | 1912 |
| Term End3: | 1914 |
| Predecessor3: | Lewis M. Seaver, Benjamin B. Scribner |
| Successor3: | David S. Conant |
| Office4: | Member of the Vermont House of Representatives from Chelsea |
| Term Start4: | 1904 |
| Term End4: | 1908 |
| Predecessor4: | Hiram N. Mattison |
| Successor4: | No choice |
| Office5: | State's Attorney of Orange County, Vermont |
| Term Start5: | 1896 |
| Term End5: | 1900 |
| Predecessor5: | Daniel C. Hyde |
| Successor5: | David S. Conant |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 1869 |
| Birth Place: | Corinth, Vermont, US |
| Death Place: | Chelsea, Vermont, US |
| Resting Place: | Highland Cemetery, Chelsea, Vermont |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Maybelle Maud Hyde (m. 1896) |
| Children: | 4 |
| Education: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Profession: | Attorney |
Hale Knight Darling (January 26, 1869 – September 18, 1940) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as the state's 50th lieutenant governor from 1915 to 1917.
Hale Knight Darling was born in Corinth, Vermont, on January 26, 1869.[1] He was employed in Massachusetts by the Fitchburg Railroad and worked as a reporter on the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel before studying law at the University of North Carolina. He was admitted to the bar in 1894, and established a practice in Chelsea, Vermont.[2]
A Republican, Darling was Orange County State's Attorney from 1896 to 1900, a member of the Vermont Board of Bar Examiners from 1901 to 1903, and Clerk of the Orange County Court from 1905 to 1921.[3] [4]
Darling served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908. In 1905 he was appointed Chairman of the Vermont Library Commission, and from 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the Commission to revise Vermont's Statutes. He served in the Vermont Senate from 1912 to 1914.[5] [6]
In 1914 he was elected Lieutenant Governor and served from 1915 to 1917, also serving again as a member of the Commission to Revise Vermont's Statutes.[7] [8]
Darling served in the Vermont Senate again from 1919 to 1921. In 1937 he was Chairman of a commission that reviewed and recommended reforms of Vermont's court system.[9]
Darling died in Chelsea on September 18, 1940.[10] He was buried in Chelsea's Highland Cemetery.[11]
In 1896, Darling married Maybelle Maud Hyde; they were the parents of four children who lived to adulthood.[12]