Matthew Hale

Matthew Hale (June 20, 1829 – March 25, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life Matthew Hale was born in Chelsea, Vermont on June 20, 1829. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1851. Then he studied law with his brother Robert S. Hale (1822–1881) and Orlando Kellogg in Elizabethtown, New York, was admitted to the bar in 1853, and commenced practice in Poughkeepsie. In 1856, he married Ellen S. Hand (c. 1835–1867).

In 1859, he moved to New York City. In 1863, he returned to Elizabethtown, and practiced law in partnership with his father-in-law Augustus C. Hand (1803–1878). Hale was Supervisor of the Town of Elizabethtown in 1864 and 1865; a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68; and a member of the New York State Senate (16th D.) in 1868 and 1869. Two years later they recommended electrocution.

Matthew Hale died at his home in Albany on March 25, 1897.