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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutHAWLEY, Joseph Roswell
(1826—1905)
Senate Years of Service:
1881-1905
Party:
Republican
HAWLEY, Joseph Roswell, a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Stewartsville, Richmond County, N.C., October 31, 1826; completed preparatory studies in Conn., and graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1847; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; editor of the Hartford Evening Press in 1857, which in 1867 was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he became editor; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army as a captain; brevetted major general in 1865, and was mustered out in January 1866; Governor of Connecticut 1866; president of the United States Centennial Commission to organize the Centennial Exposition 1873-1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Julius L. Strong; reelected to the Forty-third Congress and served from December 2, 1872, to March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; again elected to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for reelection in 1880; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1881; reelected in 1887, 1893, and 1899 and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1905; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-seventh through Forty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Fiftieth through Fifty-second and Fifty-fourth through Fifty-eighth Congresses); appointed a brigadier general in the United States Army on the retired list 1905; died in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 1905; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; Putnam, Albert D., ed. Major General Joseph R. Hawley, Soldier and Editor (1826-1905): Civil War Military Letters
. Hartford: Connecticut Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
Putnam, Albert D., ed. Major General Joseph R. Hawley, Soldier and Editor (1826-1905): Civil War Military Letters
. Hartford: Connecticut Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
Connecticut. Joint Report of the Commissions on Memorials to Senators Orville Hitchcock Platt and Joseph Roswell Hawley to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut
. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1915.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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