He graduated from Harvard University in 1896 and attended Columbia Law School in New York City from 1896 to 1897.

[3] During the presidency of Calvin Coolidge, a proposal was made by fellow Republican senator Reed Smoot of Utah to reduce the top income tax rate to 32%.

[5] Hale also voted against an amendment introduced by Furnifold Simmons[4] to raise the maximum income tax rate by 2.5%.

[6] In the 1928 Republican primary, Hale defeated incumbent governor Owen Brewster for their party's nomination which signaled the end of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine as an important political factor.

A fierce opponent of the Ku Klux Klan faction of the Republican Party in Maine, Hale was one of a handful of senators who voted against the elevation of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937 based on his alleged Klan membership.

[7][8] Opposing the liberal agenda during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hale resisted New Deal programs[3] at an even greater frequency than his Maine senatorial colleague Wallace H.

Hale had entered Libby's office in Portland, holding a copy of the newspaper, and asked, "Are you responsible for this?"