John Parker Hale, a New Hampshire lawyer, politician, and noted abolitionist, lived in this home for nearly 40 years until his death. During that time, he was elected to the U.S. Congress as a Democrat in 1842, to the U.S. Senate as an Independent in 1847, and again to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1855. The first distinctly anti-slavery U.S. senator, he was friendly with President Lincoln, who named him Minister to Spain in 1865. A statue of Hale joins those of Daniel Webster and Gen John Stark at the State House in Concord.