Robert Safford Hale (September 24, 1822 – December 14, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Chelsea, Vermont, Hale attended South Royalton (Vermont) Academy, and was graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1842. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, New York, in 1847. He served as judge of Essex County 1856–1864. He was elected a Regent of the University of the State of New York in 1859. In the 1860 presidential election, he was a presidential elector for Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamiln.