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Hale, Robert Safford

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1822, in Chelsea, Vt. He was judge of Essex county from 1856 to 1864; in 1859 was appointed a regent of the university of New York; and in 1860 was a presidential elector. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy. He was a delegate to the national union convention at Philadelphia in 1866; and was re-elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Dec. 14, 1881, in Elizabethtown, N. J.