Background
Hartley, the eighth of twelve children, was born in Shogomoc, York County, New Brunswick, Canada June 26, 1864. Son of Review Edward Hartley and Rebecca Barker (Whitehead) Hartley.
politician governor of Washington
Hartley, the eighth of twelve children, was born in Shogomoc, York County, New Brunswick, Canada June 26, 1864. Son of Review Edward Hartley and Rebecca Barker (Whitehead) Hartley.
Hartley moved down to Minnesota and started a timber business. In the summers, he worked on developing farms in North Dakota. The couple had three children, Edward, David, and Mary.
Hartley was bookkeeper in Clough Brothers Lumber Company, and became Manager and then Vice President.He was private secretary to his father-in-law, Governor David Clough of Minnesota from 1895 to 1899.
From 1897 to 1902, he was an honorary colonel in the Minnesota National Guard. Hartley moved to Everett, Washington in 1902, and invested in Hartley and Lovejoy Logging Company, The Clark-Nickerson Lumber Company, the Everett Logging Company, the Clough-Hartley Mill, and Everett City Tug Boat Company.
He was elected mayor of Everett, Washington, from 1910 to 1912 for one term. When Hartley was elected, in 1925, as tenth Governor of Washington, the gavel used for Hartley"s swearing in ceremony was the same gavel used by his father-in-law Governor David Clough of Minnesota for his swearing in.
He was the first Washington Republican governor to serve two terms and to run for a third.
He was succeeded by Clarence Doctorate. Martin. Hartley died in Seattle, Washington, September 21, 1952 and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Washington.
He was a member of Washington State House of Representatives from 1915 to 1916.