James H. Hawley
| James H. Hawley | |
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| 9th Governor of Idaho | |
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In office January 2, 1911 – January 6, 1913 |
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| Lieutenant | Lewis H. Sweetser |
| Preceded by | James H. Brady |
| Succeeded by | John M. Haines |
| Mayor of Boise, Idaho | |
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In office July 18, 1903 – July 20, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Moses Alexander |
| Succeeded by | James A. Pinney |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 17, 1847 Dubuque, Iowa |
| Died | August 3, 1929 (aged 82) Boise, Idaho |
| Resting place | Morris Hill Cemetery Boise, Idaho |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mary E. Bullock (1855–1915) |
| Children | 8, (6 to maturity) |
| Residence | Boise, Idaho |
| Profession | Attorney |
| Religion | Catholic |
James Henry Hawley (January 17, 1847 – August 3, 1929) was an attorney and politician from Idaho. He was state's ninth Governor from 1911 to 1913, and the mayor of Boise from 1903 to 1905. He also acted as prosecutor or defense attorney for a substantial number of criminal cases. Outside of criminal law, he specialized in irrigation and mining cases.
Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Hawley's mother died when he was an infant. Two years later, his father followed the gold rush to California, then moved to Texas in 1856. Thus, James grew up with the family of his uncle, James Carr.
James' maternal Carr ancestors included a great-grandfather who was a major during the Revolutionary War, and a grandfather who was a captain in the War of 1812. His father served as a major in a Texas regiment of the Confederate Army.
At the start of the Civil War, James tried to join the Union Army as part of an Iowa Volunteer regiment. Rejected as far too young at age fourteen, he gave up the idea when his uncle relocated to California in the early summer of 1861. Then his uncle headed for the newly discovered gold fields in northern Idaho. James was supposed to attend school in San Francisco, but instead he joined his uncle in Idaho, still a part of Washington Territory, during the spring of 1862.
Traveling from Lewiston, the two followed the rush into the Florence Basin. Through luck or an acute weather sense, they chose to leave the area for Walla Walla, Washington before the depth of winter set in. According to reports of the time, the 1861-1862 season "proved to be one of the coldest in the history of Idaho."
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