Frederick Hale

Frederick Hale
United States Senator from Maine
In office March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1941
Preceded by	Charles F. Johnson
Succeeded by	Owen Brewster
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 a politician from the U.S. state of Maine, representing the state in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler, both also U.S. Senators, brother of diplomat Chandler Hale, and the cousin of U.S. Representative Robert Hale.

Hale was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended preparatory schools in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and Groton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1896 and attended Columbia Law School, New York City, in 1896 and 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.

He retired to private life and died in Portland, Maine. He is interred in Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.

References

• Frederick Hale at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• "The Political Graveyard". http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#R9M0IZ1G9. Retrieved September 24, 2010. 

United States Senate
Preceded by Charles Johnson	United States Senator (Class 1) from Maine 1917–1941 Served alongside: Bert Fernald, Arthur Gould, Wallace White	Succeeded by Owen Brewster