Charles Hale

This article is about the US statesman. For the historian of Mexico, see Charles A. Hale. For the Episcopal bishop and chaplain, see Charles R. Hale. For the American social scientist, see Charles R. Hale (anthropologist). For the British MP, see Charles Leslie Hale

Charles Hale
Portrait of Charles Hale, ca.1861
Member of the Massachusetts State Senate
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1859–1859
Preceded by	Julius Rockwell
Succeeded by	John A. Goodwin
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Personal details
Born	1831
Died	1882 (aged 50–51)
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery
Parent(s)	Nathan Hale Sarah Preston Everett
Relatives	Edward Everett Hale (brother) Lucretia Peabody Hale (sister) Susan Hale (sister) Edward Everett (maternal uncle) Nathan Hale (granduncle)
Alma mater	Harvard College (1850)

Charles Hale (1831–1882) of Boston was a legislator in the Massachusetts state House and Senate intermittently between 1855 and 1877. He was Speaker of the House in 1859. In the 1860s he lived in Cairo, Egypt, as the American consul-general. From 1872 to 1873 he worked as United States Assistant Secretary of State under Hamilton Fish.

Works

• To-Day: a Boston Literary Journal. v.1 (January–June, 1852); v.2 (July–December, 1852).
• Journal of debates and proceedings in the Convention of delegates: chosen to revise the constitution of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, and continued by adjournment to January 9, 1821, Reported for the Boston Daily Advertiser. Boston: Pub. at the office of the Daily Advertiser. 1853. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• "Our houses are our castles": A review of the proceedings of the Nunnery Committee, of the Massachusetts Legislature; and especially their conduct and that of their associates on the occasion of the visit to the Catholic school in Roxbury, March 26, 1855. Boston: C. Hale, at the office of the Boston Daily Advertiser. 1855. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
• Documents in: Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1868.
• "The Khedive and the Court." Atlantic Monthly, May 1876.
• "Municipal Indebtedness." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1876.

References

Advertisement for Atlantic Monthly 1877, including article by Hale

Further reading

• Hon. Charles Hale. New York Times, Feb 14, 1872. p. 1.
• Alpha Delta Phi: college secret society in convention. ... Oration by Charles Hale of Boston ... Contrasts Between Egyptian and American Civilization. Other American Visitors to Egypt. Contemporary History of Egypt. The Reign of Ismall Pacha. The Pacha's Dignity. Ismall Pacha's Claim to Statesmanship. Railroad Progress in Egypt. Telegraph Extension. Admirable Systems of Statistics. Boston Daily Globe, Jun 4, 1875. p. 1.
• Dictionary of American Biography. 1879
• The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. Boston: Little, Brown, 1917
• Letters of Susan Hale. Boston: Marshall Jones company, 1919.
• "Hippopotamus statuette of the Middle Kingdom" (PDF). Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Dec.). 1951. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• Karen Sánchez-Eppler. "Practicing For Print: The Hale Children's Manuscript Libraries." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2008.