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Line 1: − '''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]].+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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{{Officeholder
|name=Robert S. Hale
|image=
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Agnes B. Burke
|religion=[[Congregationalist]]<ref name=thepoliticalgraveyard>[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#974.52.65 Hale]. ''The Political Graveyard''. Retrieved September 21, 2021.</ref>
|offices=
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=Maine
|district=1st
|terms=January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959
|preceded=James C. Oliver
|former=y
|succeeded=James C. Oliver
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
|terms=1929–1930
|preceded=Burleigh Martin
|former=y
|succeeded=E. D. Merrill
}}
{{Officeholder/misc
|office=State Representative from Maine
|terms=1926–1930
|preceded=???
|former=y
|succeeded=???
}}
}}
'''Robert S.'''<ref name=thepoliticalgraveyard/> '''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]].
He was the first cousin of Maine U.S. senator [[Frederick Hale]], who shared many political viewpoints.
He was the first cousin of Maine U.S. senator [[Frederick Hale]], who shared many political viewpoints.