Eugene Hale, Maine Representative and Senator
1836-1918
Years of Congressional Service: 1881-1911
Party: Republican
HALE, Eugene, (father of Frederick Hale), a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Turner, Oxford County, Maine, June 9, 1836; educated in the common schools and at Hebron Academy; studied law in Portland, Maine; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Ellsworth, Maine; prosecuting attorney for Hancock County 1858-1866; member, State house of representatives 1867-1868, 1879-1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.
He declined appointments to the Cabinets of Presidents Ulysses Grant and Rutherford Hayes; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1881; reelected in 1887, 1893, 1899, and 1905 and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1911; was not a candidate for renomination; chairman, Committee on the Census (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses, and Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Private Land Claims (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Printing (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-fifth through Sixtieth Congresses), Republican Conference Chairman, 1908-1911; Committee on Appropriations (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Public Expenditures (Sixty-first Congress); member of the National Monetary Commission
Hale retired from public life and was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death on October 27, 1918; interment in Woodbine Cemetery, Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine.
