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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1833, John Hawley came with his parents to Carthage, Illinois, where he later attended the public schools. He then attended the Jacksonville College. After a subsequent law degree in 1854 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Rock Iceland to work in this profession. Between 1856 and 1860 he served as a prosecutor. During the Civil War he served as a captain in the army of the Union. In the years 1865 and 1866 he was postmaster in Rock Iceland.

Politically, Hawley joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1868 he was in the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Abner C. Harding on March 4, 1869. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 three legislative periods. Since 1873, he represented the sixth district where his state. Between 1871 and 1873 Hawley was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public property. 1870, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1874, Hawley was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1877 and 1880 he was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury ( Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ). In 1880 he moved to Chicago, where he practiced law. Since 1886 he lived in Omaha (Nebraska ). There he represented as a lawyer the interests of the North Western Railroad Co. John Hawley died on 24 May 1895 in Hot Springs and was buried in Omaha.