Joseph Roswell Hawley
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United States Senator from Connecticut |
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In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | William W. Eaton |
| Succeeded by | Morgan G. Bulkeley |
| 42nd Governor of Connecticut | |
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In office May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867 |
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| 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 |
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In office December 2, 1872 – March 3, 1875 |
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| Preceded by | Julius L. Strong |
| Succeeded by | George M. Landers |
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In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881 |
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| Preceded by | George M. Landers |
| Succeeded by | John R. Buck |
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| Born | October 31, 1826 Stewartsville, North Carolina |
| Died | March 18, 1905 (aged 78) Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Hamilton College |
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United States Army Union Army |
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 Brigadier General Brevet Major General
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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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