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

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who served as

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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

Eugene Hale Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836October 27, 1918) was a Republican United States Senator from Maine. 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 nin ...

(1836–1918), who later served as United States Senator from Maine from 1881 to 1911 as a

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. Hale's younger brother, Frederick Hale, was born in 1874 and also served as a U.S. Senator from Maine. His maternal grandfather was

Zachariah Chandler Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was an American businessman, politician, one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist. He was mayor of Detroit, a four-term sen ...

, the former Mayor of Detroit,

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(under Presidents

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and Hayes), Chair of the

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and a U.S. Senator from Michigan. Among his cousins was Robert Hale, a

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from Maine.

Career

In 1892, Hale was secretary to the U.S. delegation at the

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. Hale spent December 1894 through April 1895 touring

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and the

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with

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

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. From 1901 to 1902, he was secretary of

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at the U.S. Embassy in

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, and then secretary of the embassy from 1902 to 1905. In 1907, he served as secretary to the U.S. delegation to the Second Hague Conference. In 1909,

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named Hale

, with Hale holding this office from October 14, 1909 until April 21, 1913. Hale returned to the diplomatic field in 1914, serving in the

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as the official responsible for

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affairs.

Personal life

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

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McCormick) Cameron and

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, a

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(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: * Chandler Hale Jr. (1898–1962), who married Eleanor Gaskill of

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. * Donald Cameron Hale (1902–1943), who was killed in action in Italy during

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. * Mary Cameron Hale (1904–1988), who married George Howland Chase III (1898–1981), the assistant general counsel of the

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, in 1929. * Eugene Hale III (1906–1920), who died aged 14. In 1929, Hale's wife purchased Poplar Hill, an estate near

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, which she renamed His Lordship's Kindness. After a six week illness, Hale died in a hospital in

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on May 23, 1951.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hale, Chandler 1873 births 1951 deaths United States Assistant Secretaries of State Hale family