Chandler Hale

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Chandler Hale
Third Assistant Secretary of State
In office
October 14, 1909 – April 21, 1913
PresidentWilliam Howard Taft
Preceded byWilliam Phillips
Succeeded byDudley Field Malone
Personal details
Born(1873-03-02)March 2, 1873
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedMay 23, 1951(1951-05-23) (aged 78)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse
Rachel Burnside Cameron
(m. 1897)
Relations
Frederick Hale (brother)
Zachariah Chandler (grandfather)
Robert Hale (cousin)
Parent(s)Eugene Hale
Mary Douglas Chandler

Chandler Hale (March 2, 1873 – May 23, 1951) was a

Third Assistant Secretary of State
from 1909 to 1913.

Early life

Chandler Hale was born in 1873. He was the son of the former Mary Douglas Chandler (1848–1930) and

Frederick Hale, was born in 1874 and also served as a U.S. Senator from Maine.[1]

His maternal grandfather was

Career

In 1892, Hale was secretary to the U.S. delegation at the International Monetary Conference in Brussels.[4] Hale spent December 1894 through April 1895 touring Mexico and the Caribbean with Henry Adams.[5]

Shortly after graduating from college, in 1897, Hale became a Secretary at the

United States Embassy in Rome.[6] From 1901 to 1902, he was secretary of legation at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and then secretary of the embassy from 1902 to 1905.[7] In 1907, he served as secretary to the U.S. delegation to the Second Hague Conference.[7]

In 1909,

Third Assistant Secretary of State
, with Hale holding this office from October 14, 1909, until April 21, 1913.

Hale returned to the diplomatic field in 1914, serving in the

United States Embassy in London as the official responsible for Austrian affairs.[8]

Personal life

Photograph of his wife, Rachel Cameron Hale, c. 1896.

On September 15, 1897, Hale was married to Rachel Burnside Cameron (1871–1963). Rachel was the daughter of Mary (

née McCormick) Cameron and J. Donald Cameron, a Secretary of War (under President Grant), U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the Chair of the Republican National Committee immediately after his grandfather. Her younger half-sister, Martha Cameron, married Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay in 1909. Together, Rachel and Chandler were the parents of:[9]

In 1929, Hale's wife purchased Poplar Hill, an estate near Clinton, Maryland, which she renamed His Lordship's Kindness.[13]

After a six week illness, Hale died in a hospital in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 1951.[14]

References

  1. ^ "HALE, Frederick - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. ^ "CHANDLER, Zachariah - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. ^ "HALE, Robert - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  4. . Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  5. . Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  6. ^ "TWO AMBASSADORS NAMED Andrew D. White Appointed to German and William F. Draper to Italy. CONSULS FOR CHINESE PORTS. The President Selects Benjamin Butterworth for Commissioner of Patents and Oliver L. Spaulding and William B. Howell for Assistant Secretaries of Treasury" (PDF). The New York Times. April 2, 1897. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b "HALE TO BE KNOX'S AID. Senator's Son Succeeds Wm. Phillips as Third Assistant Secretary of State" (PDF). The New York Times. October 8, 1909. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Uncle Sam, Restaurateur | Running an Establishment for Destitute Austrians in London" (PDF). The New York Times. October 7, 1914. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  9. ^ a b c Michigan History. Michigan History Division of the Department of State. 1923. p. 552. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  10. ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  11. ^ "George H. Chase, 83, Ex-Reserve Board Aide". The New York Times. 28 October 1981. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  12. ^ "MARY CHANDLER HALE WED.; Relative of Three Senators Bride of George Howland Chase 3d" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 October 1929. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Poplar Hill website". Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  14. ^ "CHANDLER HALE" (PDF). The New York Times. May 24, 1951. p. 35. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

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Government offices
Preceded by
Third Assistant Secretary of State

October 14, 1909 – April 21, 1913
Succeeded by