Fred Hale

'''Fred Harold Hale, Sr. '''(December 1, 1890 - November 19, 2004) was an American supercentenarian, who was at his death of age 113 years, 354 days the oldest man in the world after the death of the 114-years old Spaniard Joan Riudavets, and the oldest living American male after the death of the 113- years old John Ingram McMorran and also became the oldest man in the history of United States after surpassing Johnson Parks, a record he held until being suceeded by Walter Breuning in September 2010.He remains the oldest person ever from Maine and of the ten oldest men ever.

Biography
Fred H. Hale was born in Maine on December 1 of the year 1890.He married Flora Mooers in 1910 and in the same year his eldest child Norman Dyer Hale was born.Hale spent his career as a railroad postal worker and a beekeeper. In 1979, after 69 years of marriage, Flora passed away, leaving Hale to live independently for another 25 years.At the age of 95, he went to visit a grandson in Japan,when coming back he stopped at Hawaii where surfed for the first time.