Papers, 1876-1976

Resource Information

The work Papers, 1876-1976 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Collection, Multimedia, Mixed Materials.

Label

Papers, 1876-1976

Inclusive dates

1876-1976

Title variation

Robert Hale papers,

Title variation date

1876-1976

Creator

• Hale, Robert, 1889-1976

Contributor

• Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974
• Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957
• Sadik, Marvin S
• Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Baxter, John L., (John Lincoln), 1896-1984
• Beam, Philip C
• Coles, James Stacy, 1913-1996
• Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004
• Howell, Roger

Subject

• Beam, Philip C -- Correspondence
• Bowdoin College -- History
• Bowdoin College, Board of Overseers
• Campaign speeches -- Maine
• Coles, James Stacy, 1913-1996 -- Correspondence
• Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004 -- Correspondence
• Hale, Robert, 1889-1976 -- Archives
• Howell, Roger -- Correspondence
• Law offices -- Records and correspondence
• Legislators -- Maine
• Legislators -- United States
• Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 -- Correspondence
• Maine -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
• Maine -- Politics and government -- 1951-
• Personal correspondence
• Records (Documents)
• Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957 -- Correspondence
• Sadik, Marvin S -- Correspondence
• Speeches
• Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 -- Correspondence
• Truman, Harry S, 1884-1972 -- Correspondence
• Baxter, John L., (John Lincoln), 1896-1984 -- Correspondence

Genre

• Personal correspondence
• Records (Documents)
• Records and correspondence
• Speeches
• Archives
• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

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

Biographical or historical data

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

Cataloging source

BBH