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Robert Hale Papers, 1876-1976
8.5
linear feet.
Catalog Number:
M80
Series List:
- Correspondence, 1938-1976, 0.6 linear feet
- Speeches, 1917-1951, 0.4 linear feet
- Case Records and Briefs, 1903-1938, 2.6 linear feet
- Voting and Attendance Records, 1943-1958, 0.25 linear feet
- Diaries, 1874-1964, 0.7 linear feet
- Biographical and Miscellaneous Materials, 1927-1967, 1.6 linear feet
- Clippings and Scrapbooks, 1900-1958, n.d., 0.5 linear feet
- Images, 1945-1961, n.d., 1 linear foot
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Agency History / Biographical Note:
Robert Hale (Bowdoin 1910) was born in Portland, Maine, on November 29, 1889.
A Rhodes Scholar, he received his law degree from Oxford University in 1912.
Hale was an attorney in Boston (1914-1916), Portland (1917-1942), and
Washington, D.C. (1959-1975). He served in the Maine state legislature
(1923-1930) and was a U.S. Representative from Maine (1943-1958). Hale was
among the first to perceive socialistic and totalitarian implications in the
New Deal. He expounded his views in a series of articles in Harper's
Magazine during the winter of 1934: "Myself When Old," "Leftward Ho," and
"A City of Habitation." He considered himself a reactionary and was a strong
defender of civil rights. Hale married Agnes Burke of Morristown, N.J.;
they had a daughter, Patricia (b. 1926). Hale was related to five other
congressmen: his cousin, Frederick Hale, was U. S. Senator (1917-1941); his
uncle, Eugene, was a U.S. Representative (1869-1879) and U.S. Senator
(1881-1911); Eugene's father-in-law, Zachariah Chandler, and Zachariah's two
uncles, John and Thomas Chandler, also served in the U.S. Congress. Robert
Hale served as Bowdoin Overseer from 1969-1976. He died on November 30, 1976,
in Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content:
The collection contains letters, including many to and from Bowdoin College
during Hale's tenure as an Overseer; speeches, beginning with Hale's high
school salutatory address, but mostly dated from the 1940s, and including
campaign speeches; legal case records and briefs; voting records for the
sessions when Hale was a member of Congress; and photographs, mostly from
visits with constituents. Prominent correspondents include John L. Baxter, Philip C. Beam,
James Stacy Coles, Archibald Cox, Roger Howell, Jr., Walter Lippman, Kenneth
Roberts, Marvin Sadik, Booth Tarkington, and Harry S. Truman.
Cite as:
Robert Hale Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections &
Archives, Bowdoin College Library.
Access Restrictions:
None.
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