Robert Hale papers
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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, Philp Beam, James Stacy Coles, Archibald Cox, Roger Howell, Jr., Walter Lippman, Kenneth Roberts, Marvin Sadik, Booth Tarkington, and Harry S. Truman.
Dates
- Creation: 1876 - 1976, undated
Creator
- Hale , Robert (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Biographical/Historical 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.
Extent
8.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence, 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.
Arrangement
Organized in eight series.Correspondence (1938-1976, n.d.); Speeches (1917-1951); Case Records and Briefs (1903-1938); Voting and Attendance Records (1943-1958); Diaries; Biographical and Miscellaneous Materials; Clippings and Scrapbooks; and Images (1945-1961, n.d.)
Other Finding Aids
Unpublished chronological and alphabetical list of correspondents available in library.
Subject
- Baxter, John L. (John Lincoln), 1896-1984 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Beam, Philip C. -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Coles, James Stacy, 1913-1996 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Hale, Robert, 1889-1976 -- Archives. (Person)
- Howell, Roger -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Sadik, Marvin S. -- Correspondence. (Person)
- Bowdoin College. Board of Overseers (Organization)
- Bowdoin College -- History. (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Robert Hale Papers
- Date
- 2011
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Repository