Chandler Hale

Chandler Hale (March 2, 1873 – May 23, 1951) was a United States diplomat who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913.

Chandler Hale
Third Assistant Secretary of State
In office October 14, 1909 – April 21, 1913
President	William Howard Taft
Preceded by	William Phillips
Succeeded by	Dudley Field Malone
Personal details
Born	(1873-03-02)March 2, 1873 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died	May 23, 1951(1951-05-23) (aged 78) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Spouse(s)	Rachel Burnside Cameron ​ ( m. 1897; his death 1951)
Relations	Frederick Hale (brother) Zachariah Chandler (grandfather) Robert Hale (cousin)
Parents	Eugene Hale Mary Douglas Chandler

Early life

Chandler Hale was born in 1873. He was the son of the former Mary Douglas Chandler (1848–1930) and Eugene Hale (1836–1918), who later served as United States Senator from Maine from 1881 to 1911 as a Republican. Hale's younger brother, Frederick Hale, was born in 1874 and also served as a U.S. Senator from Maine.[1]

His maternal grandfather was Zachariah Chandler, the former Mayor of Detroit, Secretary of the Interior (under Presidents Grant and Hayes), Chair of the Republican National Committee and a U.S. Senator from Michigan.[2] Among his cousins was Robert Hale, a U.S. Representative from Maine.[3]

Career

In 1892, Hale was secretary to the U.S. delegation at the International Monetary Conference in Brussels.[4] Hale spent December 1894 through April 1895 touring Mexico and the Caribbean with Henry Adams.[5]

Shortly after graduating from college, in 1897, Hale became a Secretary at the United States Embassy in Rome.[6] From 1901 to 1902, he was secretary of legation at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and then secretary of the embassy from 1902 to 1905.[7] In 1907, he served as secretary to the U.S. delegation to the Second Hague Conference.[7]

In 1909, President of the United States William Howard Taft named Hale Third Assistant Secretary of State, with Hale holding this office from October 14, 1909 until April 21, 1913.

Hale returned to the diplomatic field in 1914, serving in the United States Embassy in London as the official responsible for Austrian affairs.[8]

Personal life

Photograph of his wife, Rachel Cameron Hale, c. 1896.

On September 15, 1897, Hale was married to Rachel Burnside Cameron (1871–1963). Rachel was the daughter of Mary (née McCormick) Cameron and J. Donald Cameron, a Secretary of War (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:[9]

• Chandler Hale Jr. (1898–1962),[9] who married Eleanor Gaskill of Santa Fe, New Mexico.[10]
• Donald Cameron Hale (1902–1943), who was killed in action in Italy during World War II.
• Mary Cameron Hale (1904–1988), who married George Howland Chase III (1898–1981), the assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board,[11] in 1929.[12]
• Eugene Hale III (1906–1920), who died aged 14.[9]

In 1929, Hale's wife purchased Poplar Hill, an estate near Clinton, Maryland, which she renamed His Lordship's Kindness.[13]

After a six week illness, Hale died in a hospital in Washington, D.C. on May 23, 1951.[14]

References

1. "HALE, Frederick - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. [Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
2. "CHANDLER, Zachariah - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
3. "HALE, Robert - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
4. Adams, Henry; Levenson, Jacob C.; Samuels, Ernest (1982). The Letters of Henry Adams. Harvard University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780674526860. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
5. Adams, Henry (1995). The Education of Henry Adams. Penguin. p. iii. ISBN 9780140445572. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
6. "TWO AMBASSADORS NAMED Andrew D. White Appointed to German and William F. Draper to Italy. CONSULS FOR CHINESE PORTS. The President Selects Benjamin Butterworth for Commissioner of Patents and Oliver L. Spaulding and William B. Howell for Assistant Secretaries of Treasury" (PDF). The New York Times. April 2, 1897. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
7. "HALE TO BE KNOX'S AID. Senator's Son Succeeds Wm. Phillips as Third Assistant Secretary of State" (PDF). The New York Times. October 8, 1909. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
8. "Uncle Sam, Restaurateur | Running an Establishment for Destitute Austrians in London" (PDF). The New York Times. October 7, 1914. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
9. Michigan History. Michigan History Division of the Department of State. 1923. p. 552. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
10. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
11. "George H. Chase, 83, Ex-Reserve Board Aide". The New York Times. 28 October 1981. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
12. "MARY CHANDLER HALE WED.; Relative of Three Senators Bride of George Howland Chase 3d" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 October 1929. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
13. Poplar Hill website.
14. "CHANDLER HALE" (PDF). The New York Times. May 24, 1951. p. 35. Retrieved 23 April 2019.

External links

• Chandler Hale at Find a Grave

Government offices
Preceded by William Phillips	Third Assistant Secretary of State October 14, 1909 – April 21, 1913	Succeeded by Dudley Field Malone