Frederick Hale (US senator)
| Frederick Hale | |
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| United States Senator from Maine | |
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In office March 4, 1917 – January 3, 1941 |
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| Preceded by | Charles F. Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Owen Brewster |
| Member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
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In office 1905-1906 |
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| Born | October 7, 1874 Detroit, Michigan |
| Died | September 28, 1963 (aged 88) Portland, Maine |
| Political party | Republican |
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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.
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.
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