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HALE, Eugene, senator, born in Turner, Oxford, County, Maine, 9 June, 1836. He received an academic education, studied law in Portland, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and began to practise at Ellsworth, Maine He was for nine successive years county attorney for Hancock county, was a member of the legislature of Maine in 1867-'80, and was then elected a representative in congress from that state, serving from 1869 till 1879. He was elected to the United States senate as a Republican to succeed Hannibal Hamlin, took his seat 4 March, 1881, and was re-elected in 1887. He was appointed postmaster-general in 1874, but declined, and also refused a cabinet appointment by President Hayes. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1868, 1876, and 1880. Mr. Hale has received the degree of LL.D. from Colby university.
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