Frederick Hale

Frederick Hale (born October 7, 1874 in Detroit , Michigan , † September 28, 1963 in Portland , Maine ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Maine from 1917 to 1941 in the US Senate .

Frederick Hale was the son of Eugene Hale , who served in the Senate for Maine from 1881 to 1911. His grandfather, Zachariah Chandler , served as the United States Senator for Michigan and as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant . Robert Hale , his cousin, was a Congressman for Maine from 1943 to 1959 .

After attending school in Lawrenceville ( New Jersey ) and Groton ( Massachusetts ) Frederick Hale made in 1896 graduated from Harvard University ; the following year he completed his law education at Columbia Law School in New York . He was inducted into the bar and began practicing in Portland in 1899.

From 1905 to 1906, Hale held his first political mandate as a member of the House of Representatives from Maine . Between 1912 and 1918 he was a member of the Republican National Committee . In 1916 he ran for the Senate seat that had previously been held by his father for 30 years, defeating the Democratic incumbent Charles Fletcher Johnson . After three re-elections, he remained in Congress from March 4, 1917 to January 3, 1941 . During this time he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Relations with Canada .

In 1940 Frederick Hale finally did not run for re-election. He retired into private life and died in Portland in 1963.

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Frederick Hale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)