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Joseph R. Hawley

Joseph Roswell Hawley
Joseph Roswell Hawley - Brady-Handy.jpg
United States Senator
from Connecticut
In office
March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1905
Preceded by William W. Eaton
Succeeded by Morgan G. Bulkeley
42nd Governor of Connecticut
In office
May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867
Lieutenant Oliver Winchester
Preceded by William A. Buckingham
Succeeded by James E. English
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's 1st district
In office
December 2, 1872 – March 3, 1875
Preceded by Julius L. Strong
Succeeded by George M. Landers
In office
March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881
Preceded by George M. Landers
Succeeded by John R. Buck
Personal details
Born October 31, 1826
Stewartsville, North Carolina
Died March 18, 1905(1905-03-18) (aged 78)
Washington, D.C.
Political party Republican
Alma mater Hamilton College
Military service
Service/branch United States Army
Union Army
Rank Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg Brigadier General
Union Army major general rank insignia.svg Brevet Major General
Battles/wars

American Civil War


American Civil War

Joseph Roswell Hawley (October 31, 1826 – March 18, 1905) was the 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and a journalist and newspaper editor. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was a four-term U.S. Senator.

Hawley, a direct descendant of Joseph Hawley (Captain), first of the name in America, through Ebenezer, Joseph and Samuel, was born in Stewartsville, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, where Hawley's father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church. He was born at the Stewart-Hawley-Malloy House; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. His father returned to Connecticut in 1837 and Joseph attended and graduated from Hamilton College in New York in 1847. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced law in Hartford, Connecticut for six years.

An ardent opponent of slavery, Hawley became a Free Soiler, was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated John Parker Hale for the presidency in 1852, and subsequently served as chairman of the party's State Committee and editor of the party's newspaper, the Charter Oak. In 1856, he took a leading part in organizing the Republican Party in Connecticut, and in 1857 became editor of the Hartford Evening Press, a newly established Republican newspaper.


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