Frederick Hale was a politician from the U.S. state

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 of Maine

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, representing the state in the United States Senate

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 from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale

Eugene Hale

Eugene Hale was a Republican United States Senator from Maine.Born at 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...

, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler

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, both also U.S. Senators, brother of diplomat Chandler Hale

Chandler Hale

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, and the cousin of U.S. Representative Robert Hale

Robert Hale (Maine)

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Hale was born in Detroit, Michigan

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 and attended preparatory schools in Lawrenceville, New Jersey

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, and Groton, Massachusetts

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. He graduated from Harvard University

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 in 1896 and attended Columbia Law School

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, New York City

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, in 1896 and 1897. He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced the practice of law in Portland, Maine

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, in 1899.

Hale was a Republican

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 member of the Maine House of Representatives

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, 1905–1906; and a member of the Republican National Committee

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, 1912-1918. In 1916, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate

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, defeating incumbent Democrat Charles Fletcher Johnson

Charles Fletcher Johnson

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 to reclaim the Senate seat that had been held by his father Eugene Hale.

He was reelected in 1922, 1928, and again in 1934, serving from March 4, 1917 to January 3, 1941. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1940. He served as chairman, Committee on Canadian Relations

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 in the Sixty-sixth Congress

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, and served on the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Sixty-eighth

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 through Seventy-second

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 Congresses, and the Committee on Appropriations

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 in the Seventy-second Congress

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He retired to private life and died in Portland, Maine. He is interred in Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Maine

Ellsworth, Maine

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