John B. Hawley

John B. Hawley

John Baldwin Hawley (born February 9, 1831 in Hawleyville , Fairfield County , Connecticut , †  May 24, 1895 in Hot Springs , South Dakota ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1875 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1833, John Hawley and his parents came to Carthage , Illinois, where he later attended public schools. He then graduated from Jacksonville College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1854, he began to work in Rock Island in this profession. Between 1856 and 1860 he was a public prosecutor. During the civil war he served as a captain in the Union army . In 1865 and 1866 he was a postman on Rock Island.

Politically, Hawley joined the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1868 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Abner C. Harding on March 4, 1869 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1875 . Since 1873 he represented the sixth district of his state there. Between 1871 and 1873, Hawley was chairman of the Committee to Control Public Property Spending. In 1870 the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1874 Hawley was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. Between 1877 and 1880 he was deputy US Treasury Secretary ( Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ). In 1880 he moved to Chicago where he practiced as a lawyer. Since 1886 he lived in Omaha ( Nebraska ). There he represented the interests of the Northwestern Railroad Co. as a lawyer . John Hawley died on May 24, 1895 in Hot Springs and was buried in Omaha.

Web links

• John B. Hawley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)