Dial engaged in banking and in various manufacturing enterprises, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1912; he was, however, elected in 1918 as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 4, 1925; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924 and in 1925 was a member of the commission to report on the use of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Nathaniel Lyon | Nathaniel P. Banks | Dial M for Murder | Nathaniel Bowditch | Dial Corporation | Nathaniel Philbrick | Nathaniel Dance | Dial Press | Nathaniel Westlake | Nathaniel Rosen | Nathaniel Wallich | Nathaniel Parker Willis | Nathaniel Lardner | Nathaniel Kahn | Nathaniel Peabody Rogers | Nathaniel L. Carpenter | Nathaniel Kern | Nathaniel Heckford | Nathaniel Greene | Nathaniel Bacon | Dial House, Essex | Dial H for Hero | Rotary dial | Nathaniel W. Watkins | Nathaniel Wheeler | Nathaniel T. Oaks | Nathaniel Thayer | Nathaniel Stookey | Nathaniel P. Hill |
The original members of the Watuppa Reservoir Company were David Anthony, Nathaniel B. Borden, Oliver Chace and Bradford Durfee.
The name appears on Powell's map of 1822 based upon the joint cruise of Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer, in the sloop James Monroe, and Captain George Powell, in the sloop Dove, in December 1821.