'''Robert S.'''<ref>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#974.52.65 Hale]. ''The Political Graveyard''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref> '''Hale''' (November 29, 1889 – November 30, 1976) was a [[conservative]] [[Republican]] from [[Maine]] who served as a state representative and U.S. representative from the 1920s to the 1950s. A self-described [[reactionary]] and advocate of [[civil rights]],<ref>[https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/rhg.shtml Guide to the Robert Hale Papers, 1876 - 1976, undated]. ''Bowdoin''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref> Hale was particularly known in the 1920s for his opposition to the state [[Ku Klux Klan]]. | '''Robert S.'''<ref>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#974.52.65 Hale]. ''The Political Graveyard''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref> '''Hale''' (November 29, 1889 – November 30, 1976) was a [[conservative]] [[Republican]] from [[Maine]] who served as a state representative and U.S. representative from the 1920s to the 1950s. A self-described [[reactionary]] and advocate of [[civil rights]],<ref>[https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/rhg.shtml Guide to the Robert Hale Papers, 1876 - 1976, undated]. ''Bowdoin''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref> Hale was particularly known in the 1920s for his opposition to the state [[Ku Klux Klan]]. |