Robert S. Hale

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Robert S. Hale

Robert Safford Hale (born September 24, 1822 in Chelsea , Vermont , † December 14, 1881 in Elizabethtown , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867 and from 1873 to 1875 .

Career

Robert Safford Hale was born in Chelsea, Orange County , about seven and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He attended South Royalton Academy and graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1842 . Then he studied law . In 1847 he began practicing law in Elizabethtown. Between 1856 and 1864 he was a judge in Essex County . He was appointed regent at the University of the State of New York in New York City in 1859 . Between 1868 and 1870 he was a special counsel to the United States who was tasked with defending the "abandoned and conquered property claims". As an agent and advisor ( counsel ) he worked for the United States between 1871 and 1873 before the American and British Mixed Commission under the Treaty of Washington .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a by-election on December 3, 1866 in the 16th electoral district of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Orlando Kellogg . He retired from the on March 3, 1867 Congress of. In the congressional election of 1872 for the 43rd Congress , Hale was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 17th electoral district of New York, where he succeeded William A. Wheeler on March 4, 1873 . Since he refused to run again in 1874 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1875. As a congressman, he presided over the Committee on District of Columbia during that tenure .

On April 29, 1876, he was appointed State Survey Commissioner - a position he held until his death. He died on December 14, 1881 in Elizabethtown and was then buried in Riverside Cemetery . The Senator Matthew Hale (1829-1897) was his brother.

Web links

  • Robert S. Hale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Remarks

  1. ^ Member of the board of directors of a university
personal data
SURNAME Hale, Robert S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hale, Robert Safford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Chelsea , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1881
Place of death Elizabethtown , New York