Charles Hawks, Jr.

Charles Hawks (* July 7, 1899 in Horicon, Dodge County, Wisconsin; † January 6, 1960 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Hawks attended the common schools and then completed the trade school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. During the First World War, he served from 1917 to 1919 in the U.S. Navy. Between 1922 and 1925 he worked as a salesman; 1925 to 1943 he worked in the insurance industry.

Politically Hawks was a member of the Republican Party. Since 1933 he was a delegate to the regional party conferences in Wisconsin. From 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the county council in Dodge County. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harry Sauthoff on January 3, 1939. Since he lost to Sauthoff in the elections of 1940, he was able to complete only one legislative sessions in Congress until January 3, 1941.

1942 Hawks competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In 1943 he moved to Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. There he worked for the Philadelphia-based company General Grinding Wheel Corp.. in research and in public relations. In this company, he rose to become vice president. Charles Hawks died on January 6, 1960 in Bryn Mawr, and was buried in Horicon.

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