LibGuides: Native American Biographies: Hale, Albert

Introduction

Albert A. Hale (Navajo) is an attorney and a Democratic politician. He served as Arizona State Senator for District 2 from January 2004 to 2011. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. Hale was elected the second Navajo Nation President in late 1994 by the consent of the Navajo people, serving until 1998, when he resigned after being charged with over 50 felonies and misdemeanors for theft and bribery.

Articles

Rep. Albert Hale sees family echoes in Navajo woman's fatal shooting by Winslow police
In 1952, when former Navajo Nation President Albert Hale’s father was beaten and killed in Gallup, N.M., there was no outcry for justice, Hale says, even as a family friend suggested at the time that police were involved.
Albert Hale, 2nd President of Navajo Nation in 1990s, Dies
Albert Hale, who served as the second president of the Navajo Nation in the 1990s, died Tuesday.

A cause of death and an exact age for Hale was not immediately available. But tribal officials said Hale was in his early 70s and was battling COVID-19 when the Navajo Nation Council heard of his condition last Friday.