Background
HAWLEY, Willis C. was born on May 5, 1864 in Monroe, Benton Company, Oregon. Son of Sewell R. and Emma A. (Noble) Hawley.
HAWLEY, Willis C. was born on May 5, 1864 in Monroe, Benton Company, Oregon. Son of Sewell R. and Emma A. (Noble) Hawley.
Bachelor of Science, Willamette U., Salem, 1884, Bachelor of Laws, and Bachelor of Arts, 1888, A.M., 1891, Doctor of Laws, 1909.
Principal Umpqua Academy, Wilbur, Oregon, 1884-1886. President Oregon State Normal School, Drain, Oregon, 1888-1891. Professor mathematics, 1891-1893, head professor of history, economics and constitutional law, 1893-1906. president, 1893-1902, vice-president and dean, 1902-1905, Willamette U. Admitted to Oregon bar, 1894, also to the United States District, Circuit and Supreme courts.
Member 60th to 72d Congresses (1907-1933), 1st Oregon District (Chairman of Commission on ways and means). Chairman caucus of Republicans of the House, 69th to 72d Congresses. Member National Forest Reservation Commission.
Member Joint communications of Senate and House on Celebration of 200th Anniversary of Birth of George Washington. Chairman Joint Committee of Senate and House on Internal Revenue Taxation. Head manager Pacific Jurisdiction, Woodmen of the World, since 1896, term ending 1936.
Mason.
Married Anna M. Geisendorfer, August 19, 1885.