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|image=Robert Hale Maine bioguide picture.jpg

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|party=[[Republican]]

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'''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]].

'''Robert 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.