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 JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY

, of Hartford, was born at Stewartsville, Richmond County, N. C., October 31, 1826; graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1847; was admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Conn., where he has since resided; practiced law six and a half years; became editor of the Hartford Evening Press in February, 1857, which, in 1867, was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he became editor; enlisted in the Union army as a lieutenant April 15, 1861 became brigadier and brevet major-general; mustered out January 15, 1806; was elected governor of Connecticut in April, 1866; was a delegate to the Free Soil national convention of 1852, presidential elector in 1868, president of the Republican national convention of 1868, and delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880; was president of the United States Centennial Commission from its organization in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the Centennial Exposition; is a trustee of Hamilton College; received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hamilton College, Yale University, and Trinity College; was elected in November, 1872, a Representative in the Forty-Second Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of J. L. Strong; was reëlected to the Forty-Third and Forty-Sixth Congresses; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed William W. Eaton, Democrat; took his seat March 4, 1881, and was reëlected in 1887 and again in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.