Frederick Hale (US senator)

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Frederick Hale
United States Senator from Maine
In office
March 4, 1917  January 3, 1941
Preceded by Charles F. Johnson
Succeeded by Owen Brewster
Member of the Maine House of Representatives
In office
1905-1906
Personal details
Born October 7, 1874
Detroit, Michigan
Died September 28, 1963(1963-09-28) (aged 88)
Portland, Maine
Political party Republican
Alma mater Harvard University
Columbia Law School
Religion Congregationalist

Frederick Hale (October 7, 1874  September 28, 1963) was the United States Senator from Maine from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler, both also U.S. Senators,. He was the brother of diplomat Chandler Hale, and the cousin of U.S. Representative Robert Hale.

Biography

Hale was born on October 7, 1874 in Detroit, Michigan to Eugene Hale. He attended the Lawrenceville School, and a prep school in Groton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1896 and attended Columbia Law School in New York City from 1896 to 1897. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Portland, Maine in 1899.

Hale was a Republican member of the Maine House of Representatives, 1905–1906; and a member of the Republican National Committee, 1912-1918. In 1916, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, defeating incumbent Democrat Charles Fletcher Johnson to reclaim the Senate seat that had been held by his father Eugene Hale.

He was reelected in 1922, 1928, and again in 1934, serving from March 4, 1917 to January 3, 1941. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1940. He served as chairman, Committee on Canadian Relations in the Sixty-sixth Congress, and served on the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses, and the Committee on Appropriations in the Seventy-second Congress.

A fierce opponent of the Ku Klux Klan faction of the Republican Party in Maine, Hale was one of a handful of senators who voted against the elevation of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937 based on his alleged Klan membership.[1]

He retired to private life and died in Portland, Maine on September 28, 1963. He is interred in Woodbine Cemetery in Ellsworth, Maine. At the time of his death, Hale was the last living Senator who was serving at the time of the United States' declaration of war against the German Empire, which precipitated the United States' participation in World War I.

References

  1. "Dons Robe of Supreme Court Justice in October", Nashua Telegraph, Aug. 18, 1937, p. 6
United States Senate
Preceded by
Charles Johnson
U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Maine
1917–1941
Served alongside: Bert Fernald, Arthur Gould, Wallace White
Succeeded by
Owen Brewster
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