Robert S. Hale

Robert Safford Hale (* September 24, 1822 in Chelsea, Vermont, † December 14, 1881 in Elizabethtown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1866 and 1867 and 1873-1875 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Safford Hale was born about seven and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Chelsea in Orange County. He attended South Royalton Academy and put in 1842 at the University of Vermont in Burlington, the final examination. Then he studied law. In 1847 he began work as a lawyer in Elizabethtown. Between 1856 and 1864 he was a judge in Essex County. They appointed him in 1859 Regent of the University of the State of New York in New York City. Between 1868 and 1870 he was Special Adviser (special counsel ) of the United States, which was tasked to defend " abandoned and captured property claims ." As agent and advisor ( counsel ) he worked 1871-1873 for the United States before the American and British Mixed Commission under the Treaty of Washington.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He was in a special election on December 3, 1866 in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Orlando Kellogg. He resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1867. In the congressional elections of 1872 for the 43rd Congress Hale was elected in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of William A. Wheeler on March 4, 1873. Since he gave up for reelection in 1874, he retired after March 3, 1875 from the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on District of Columbia during this term of office.

On 29 April 1876 he was appointed Commissar for State Survey - a position which he held until his death. He died on 14 December 1881 in Elizabethtown and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery. The Senator Matthew Hale (1829-1897) was his brother.