Eugene Hale
| Eugene Hale | |||
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| Former U.S. Senator from Maine From: March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1911 | |||
| Predecessor | Hannibal Hamlin | ||
| Successor | Charles F. Johnson | ||
| Former U.S. Representative from Maine's 5th Congressional District From: March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1879 | |||
| Predecessor | Frederick A. Pike | ||
| Successor | Thompson H. Murch | ||
| Former State Representative from Maine From: 1867–1868 | |||
| Predecessor | ??? | ||
| Successor | ??? | ||
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| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Mary Douglas Chandler | ||
Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836 – October 27, 1918) was a Maine Republican who served as the state's U.S. senator from 1881 to 1911. He succeeded Hannibal Hamlin, who was previously the Vice President under Abraham Lincoln's first term. Hale previously represented the state's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, and was a member of the lower state legislature prior to that.
Political career
After being elected to the House of Representatives from the state's now-defunct fifth congressional district for five terms before being defeated in the 1878 midterms,[1] Hale was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1880 and re-elected four times.
A crucial legislator in appropriation bills, Hale was a member of the committees on such as well as naval matters.[2][3] He was also one of only three Republican senators in 1899 to vote against the Treaty of Paris in opposition to imperialism.[4]
Family
Hale was the son-in-law of abolitionist and Michigan U.S. senator Zachariah Chandler, as well as the father of later Maine senator Frederick Hale. Both were staunch conservatives, with Chandler aligning with the pro-business, economically nationalist wing of the GOP in his era[5] and the younger Hale staunchly opposing the New Deal during the 1930s.[6]
References
- ↑ Candidate - Eugene Hale. Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ Bio of Eugene Hale - United States Senator. onlinebiographies.info. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ Hale, Eugene. Maine: An Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ FascinatingPolitics (February 17, 2021). George Frisbie Hoar: An Honorable Senator. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ FascinatingPolitics (March 17, 2019). Aside From Their Push for Equal Rights, What Was the Ideology of the Radical Republicans?. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ FascinatingPolitics (September 23, 2018). How the Northeast Became Democratic, Part IV: Maine (Sort of). Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
External links
- Profile at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
