| LC control no. | nr 95015659 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hawes, Harry Bartow, 1869-1947 |
| Birth date | 18691115 |
| Death date | 19470731 |
| Place of birth | Covington, Ky. |
| Place of death | Washington, D.C. |
| Affiliation | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Law Missouri. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Wildlife conservationists |
| Found in | Fish and game, now or never, 1935: t.p. (Harry Bartow Hawes) LC in RLIN, 4-25-95 (hdg.: Hawes, Harry Bartow, 1869-1947) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 16, 2013 (Hawes, Harry Bartow, (grandnephew of Albert Gallatin Hawes), a Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born in Covington, Kenton County, Ky., November 15, 1869; attended preparatory schools; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1887 and studied law; graduated from Washington University Law School at St. Louis in 1896; admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in that city; represented the Republic of Hawaii during its annexation to the United States; president of the St. Louis police board 1898-1904; member, State house of representatives 1916-1917; served during the First World War with the Military Intelligence Department of the General Staff, and later was assigned to the United States Embassy in Madrid, Spain; chief organizer of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association; president of the Missouri Good Roads Federation and of the Federated Roads Council of St. Louis 1917-1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, and Sixty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, to October 15, 1926, when he resigned; elected on November 2, 1926, to the United States Senate as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selden P. Spencer and on the same day was also elected for the full term commencing March 4, 1927; served from December 6, 1926, until his resignation effective February 3, 1933, to devote his time to the wildlife conservation movement and to the practice of law; served as counsel for the Philippine Commonwealth; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death there on July 31, 1947; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered in the Current River near Doniphan, Mo.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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