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Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale (6 June 1836 – 27 October 1918) was a United States Senator from Maine.
Born at Turner, Maine, he was admitted to the bar in 1857 and served for 9 years as prosecuting attorney for Hancock County, Maine. He was elected to the Maine Legislature 1867–68, to the U.S. House of Representatives 1869–79, and succeeded Hannibal Hamlin in the U.S. Senate, serving from 1881 to 1911.
Although he declined the post of Secretary of the Navy in the Rutherford B. Hayes administration, Senator Hale performed constructive work of the greatest importance in the area of naval appropriations, especially during the early fights for the "new Navy". "I hope", he said in 1884, "that I shall not live many years before I shall see the American Navy what it ought to be, the pet of the American people." Much later in his career, he opposed the building of large numbers of capital ships, which he regarded as less effective in proportion to cost and subject to rapid obsolescence.
Senator Hale retired from politics in 1911 and spent the remainder of his life in Ellsworth, Maine, and in Washington, D.C., where he died.
Two ships were named USS Hale for him.
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