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Born on a farm in the old Belknap settlement near Monroe, Oregon, he attended country schools and was graduated from the academic and law departments of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1888.

He was a principal of the Umpqua Academy from 1884- 86. He was president of the Oregon State Normal School at Drain from 1888- 91. He served as president of Willamette University from 1893Events January 1 Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting. Janua- 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage and was professor of history and economics for sixteen years. Later, he was engaged in numerous business and educational enterprises. He was a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission; member of the Special Committee on Rural Credits created by Congress in 1915; and member of the Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George WashingtonGeorge Washington ( February 22, 1732— December 14, 1799), also called Father of his Country 1 was an American general and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 1783) and later the first President of the Unite.

Elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (serving from March 4March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). There are 302 days remaining. Events Up to 1799 303 or 304 Martyrdom of saint Adrian of Nicomedia. 1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans. 1461 King He, 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis to March 3March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). There are 303 days remaining. Events 1400-1899 1431 Eugenius IV becomes Pope. 1791 The United States Mint is created by the United States Congress. 1820 The United States, 1933). While in Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses) and a co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930.

Hawley was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1932. He returned to Salem and resumed the practice of law. He died there in 1941. Interment is in City View Cemetery.