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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyAlbert Wahl HAWKES
(1878-1971)
Senate Years of Service:
1943-1949Party: RepublicanHAWKES, Albert Wahl, a
Senator from New Jersey; born in Chicago, Ill., November 20, 1878;
attended the public schools; graduated from Chicago College of Law
in 1900, and admitted to the bar the same year; studied chemistry
at Lewis Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology),
Chicago, Ill., for two years; engaged in the chemical business;
during the First World War served as director of the Chemical
Alliance, Washington, D.C., 1917-1918; president of
Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., at Kearny, N.J., 1927-1942, becoming
chairman of the board in 1937; president and director of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States 1941-1942; member of the
Newark Labor Board and later appointed to the Board to Maintain
Industrial Peace in New Jersey 1941-1942; member of the National
War Labor Board, Washington, D.C., 1942; elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate in 1942 and served from January 3, 1943,
to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948;
resumed former business activities in Montclair, N.J., until 1961
when he moved to Pasadena, Calif.; trustee of the Freedoms
Foundation, where the Hawkes Library, Valley Forge, Pa., was named
after him; died at Palm Desert, Calif., May 9, 1971; interment in
Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, N.J.
Bibliography
Hawkes, Albert Wahl. Congress and the Patent System. New
York: National Association of Manufacturers, 1944; Hawkes, Albert
Wahl. The Role of the United States in Economic Affairs. New
York: American Tariff League, 1947.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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