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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonWillis Chatman HAWLEY
(1864-1941)
HAWLEY, Willis Chatman, a
Representative from Oregon; born on a farm in the old Belknap
settlement near Monroe, Benton County, Oreg., May 5, 1864; attended
the country schools and was graduated from the academic and law
departments of Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., in 1888;
principal of the Umpqua Academy, Wilbur, Oreg., 1884-1886;
president of the Oregon State Normal School at Drain 1888-1891; was
admitted to the bar in Oregon in 1893; president of Willamette
University 1893-1902 and was professor of history and economics for
sixteen years; engaged in numerous business and educational
enterprises; member of the National Forest Reservation Commission;
member of the Special Committee on Rural Credits created by
Congress in 1915; member of the Commission for the Celebration of
the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington;
elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the twelve
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1933); chairman,
Committee on Ways and Means (Seventieth and Seventy-first
Congresses); co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; returned to Salem
and resumed the practice of law; died in Salem, Oreg., July 24,
1941; interment in City View Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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