Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale | |
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Chairman of the House Republican Conference | |
In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 | |
Speaker | Samuel J. Randall |
Preceded by | George W. McCrary |
Succeeded by | William P. Frye |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 5th district | |
In office March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1879 | |
Preceded by | Frederick A. Pike |
Succeeded by | Thompson H. Murch |
Member of the Maine House of Representatives | |
In office 1867–1868 | |
In office 1879–1880 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Turner, Maine, U.S. | June 9, 1836
Died | October 27, 1918 Washington, D.C., U.S. | (aged 82)
Political party | Republican |
Relations | Zachariah Chandler (Father-in-law) Chandler Hale (Son) Frederick Hale (Son) |
Profession | Politician, lawyer |
Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836 – October 27, 1918) was a
Biography
Born in Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebron Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and served for nine years as prosecuting attorney for Hancock County, Maine. He was elected to the Maine Legislature 1867–1868, to the U.S. House of Representatives 1869–1879, serving in the 41st and four succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the 46th Congress.
Hale was served as a member of the National Monetary Commission. He was also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Theta chapter).
Blaine faction politics
During the 1876 United States presidential election, Hale, along with future senatorial colleague William P. Frye, served as campaign managers for James G. Blaine at the Republican National Convention.[1] Following the corrupt election that installed Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president following the Compromise of 1877, Blaine, who supported Hayes in the general election, requested the nomination of a New England Republican into a cabinet officer position. At the house of John Sherman, Blaine called for President Hayes to nominate Frye as United States Attorney General.[2] Hayes instead offered to appoint Hale to a cabinet position, countering Blaine's wishes to succeed senator Hannibal Hamlin with Hale.
Hale was a member of the
Although he declined the post of
In the
In 1881, Hamlin resigned from the United States Senate. Hale, who left Congress following defeat at the hands of the Greenback Party previously in 1878,[4] competed with Frye for the open seat.[5] Due to Frye then having still retained his House seat in contrast to Hale not being office at the time, the latter was given the Senate post.[6] Frye later succeeded Blaine to serve in the Senate, and the two became colleagues in the upper chamber.
Hale received an LL.D. from Bates College in 1882. In 1883, Hale joined Hannibal E. Hamlin, the son of the former vice president, and started the small law firm Hale & Hamlin in Ellsworth, Maine, which is now recognized as Maine's oldest law firm.[7]
Senatorial career, later life
During the late 1890s, Hale and Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts were the most vocal opponents of American intervention into the ongoing insurrection in Cuba. Hale disdained expansionism and jingoism and often challenged claims made by senators on Cuban military victories and Spanish atrocities. He so frequently engaged in verbal jousts with Cuban sympathizers in the Senate that they unfairly accused him of parroting Spanish propaganda and called him "The Senator from Spain."
Senator Hale retired from politics in 1911 and spent the remainder of his life in Ellsworth, Maine, and in Washington, D.C., where he died. He is buried in Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine.
Two ships were named
Gertrude Atherton's novel Senator North (1900) was based on Eugene Hale.[8]
References
- ^ Banks, Ronald F. (June 1958). The Senatorial Career of William P. Frye, p. 4. The University of Maine. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ The Senatorial Career of William P. Frye, p. 5.
- ^ a b c The Senatorial Career of William P. Frye, p. 6–7.
- ^ ME District 5 Race - Sep 09, 1878. Our Campaigns. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
- ^ The Senatorial Career of William P. Frye, p. 8.
- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. 9 November 1903. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Read more about the Firm". Hale & Hamlin - Attorneys At Law. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
- ISBN 978-0-7876-3995-2.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- United States Congress. "Eugene Hale (id: H000029)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
External links
- Media related to Eugene Hale at Wikimedia Commons
- United States Congress. "Eugene Hale (id: H000029)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- history.navy.mil: Biography of Eugene Hale
- Bio of Eugene Hale - United States Senator – The Lakeside Press via Online Biographies via Internet Archive