Hawley, Joseph R
soldier, journalist, legislator, was born Oct. 31, 1826, in Richmond county, N. C. He graduated at Hamilton college, New York, in 1847, and was admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Conn., where he has since resided. He became editor of the Hartford Evening Press in 1857, which was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he is editor. He enlisted in the union army as a lieutenant in 1861, and became brigadier and brevet major-general. He was elected governor of Connecticut in 1866. He was president of the United States centennial commission from its organization, in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the centennial exhibition. He was elected in 1872 a representative in the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy; was re-elected to the forty-third congress, and was elected to the forty-sixth congress. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican; took his seat March 4, 1881, was re-elected in 1887, and was again elected in 1893.