Background
Chandler Hale was born in 1873, the son of Eugene Hale (who would serve as United States Senator from Maine from 1881 to 1911 as a Republican) and his wife, the former Mary Douglas Chandler, daughter of Zachariah Chandler.
Chandler Hale was born in 1873, the son of Eugene Hale (who would serve as United States Senator from Maine from 1881 to 1911 as a Republican) and his wife, the former Mary Douglas Chandler, daughter of Zachariah Chandler.
Assistant secretary American delegation to International Bimetallic Conference, Brussels, 1892. Secretary American Embassy at Rome, 1897. Secretary American Legation and Embassy at Vienna, 1901-1905.
Secretary American delegation to 2d Peace Conference, The Hague, 1907.
3d assistant secretary of state, United States, 1909-1913.
Chandler Hale"s younger brother, Frederick Hale, was born in 1874. In 1892, Hale was secretary to the United States. delegation at the International Monetary Conference in Brussels. Hale spent December 1894 through April 1895 touring Mexico and the Caribbean with Henry Adams.
Shortly after graduating from college, in 1897, Hale became a Secretary at the United States Embassy in Rome.
From 1901 to 1902, he was secretary of legation at the United States. Embassy in Vienna, and then secretary of the embassy from 1902 to 1905. In 1907, he served as secretary to the United States. delegation to the Second Hague Conference.
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
In 1929, Hale"s wife, Rachel Cameron Hale, purchased Poplar Hill, an estate near Clinton, Maryland, which she renamed His Lordship"s Kindness.
Hale died in a hospital in Washington, District of Columbia on May 23, 1951.
Married Rachel Cameron, September 28, 1897.