Robert Hale (Maine)
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Robert Hale (November 29, 1889 - November 30, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, cousin of Frederick Hale.
Born in Portland, Maine, Hale attended the public schools. He was graduated from Portland High School in 1906, from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1910, and from Oxford University in England, in 1912. He attended Harvard Law School in 1913 and 1914. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1914, the Maine bar in 1917, and the District of Columbia bar in 1959. Practiced in Portland, Maine from 1917 to 1942. During the First World War served in the United States Army in grades up to second lieutenant, with overseas service from 1917 to 1919. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1923-1930, serving as speaker in 1929 and 1930.
Hale was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1959). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he died November 30, 1976. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
