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Robert Safford Hale was born on September 24, 1822, in Chelsea, Vermont, United States, the son of Harry and Lucinda (Eddy) Hale, and a descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Hale who removed from Watton, England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1637.
Robert Hale was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1842 and then returned to Chelsea to begin the study of law. He completed his studies in the office of Augustus C. Hand in Elizabethtown, New York.
Upon his admission to practice, in Albany, in January 1847, Robert Hale entered into a partnership with Orlando Kellogg which continued until his election as county judge and surrogate of Essex County in the fall of 1856. After eight years on the bench he engaged in private practice until May 20, 1880, when ill health necessitated his retirement. His practice extended throughout northern New York, where his native ability, erudition, eloquence, and courage gave him distinguished rank in his profession.
His scholarly tastes and the breadth of his culture led to his choice as a regent of the University of the State of New York, March 29, 1859, and he served actively with that body during the remaining twenty-two years of his life.
In 1865 Hale was elected to fill a vacancy in Congress and served in the turbulent second session of the Thirty-ninth Congress. Three years later he was appointed special counsel of the Treasury Department before the United States court of claims in the matter of claims for captured and abandoned cotton.
In 1870 he was defeated at the polls for the New York court of appeals, in an election which went against his party, but shortly afterward he was called to Washington for the most distinguished service of his career, that as agent and counsel of the United States before the American-British Mixed Gaims Commission, 1871-1873. His full report indicates that the British claims amounted to about $96, 000, 000; that the sole responsibility for the United States briefs in these 478 claims rested upon him, and that the awards to the British claimants by the Commission against the United States amounted to only about two per cent, of the claims presented.
Hale's last service in Washington was as representative in the Forty-third Congress from 1873 to 1875, after which he returned to his home.
Robert Safford Hale is best remembered today as agent and counsel of the United States before the American and British Mixed Commission under the Treaty of Washington, which position he held from 1871 to 1873. He also was the first president of the village of Elizabethtown in 1875 and in 1876 one of the commissioners of the state topographical survey.
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Robert Safford Hale married Lovina Sibley Stone, daughter of Captain Jeremiah Stone of Elizabethtown.
