 By most accounts, it was Dale who suggested persistently that Coolidge be sworn in immediately to ensure continuity in the presidency, and Dale witnessed Coolidge receiving the oath of office from John Coolidge early on the morning of August 3.Dale drafted and revised a written an account of this event, which his grandson Porter H. Dale II and great-grandson Christopher Dale later discovered and published in the "Journal of Vermont History" in 1994.Dale was elected to the United States Senate on November 6, 1923 for the remainder of the term ending March 3, 1927, which had been made vacant by the death of William P. Dillingham.