Unitarian ministry and liberal theology

Edward Everett Hale

1822 – 1909

Edward Everett Hale was an American Unitarian minister, historian, and prolific author who served as pastor of South Congregational Church in Boston for over four decades and later as Chaplain to the U.S. Senate. Best known for the patriotic story The Man Without a Country (1863), he also wrote extensively on religious and social themes, contributing to liberal Protestant thought and reform movements in nineteenth-century America.