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Hawley, Joseph Roswell

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Hawley, Joseph Roswell (1826-1905)

US journalist, soldier, and politician. An abolitionist and founder of the Republican Party in Connecticut, he edited the Hartford Evening Press (1857-61). During the Civil War he attained the rank of major general in the Union army. He served as governor of Connecticut (1866-67) and then as editor of the Hartford Courant (1867). A Republican, he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives (1872-75, 1879-81) and then in the US Senate (1881-1905). He also served as president of the Centennial Commission in 1876. Hawley was born in Stewartsville, North Carolina.
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