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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James H. Hawley |
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, Idaho , United States |
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January 17, 1847
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| Died | August 03, 1929
(82 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | James Henry Hawley was the ninth Governor of Idaho from 1911 until 1913. Hawley also served as mayor of Boise from 1903 to 1905.
He was born on January 17, 1847 in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1893, James Hawley suggested to Coeur d'Alene area miners that they should form a federation for protection from the mine owners.[1] More than a decade later he would be on the other side, seeking to destroy that very federation.
In 1907, Hawley joined William Borah as prosecution attorneys in a trial of leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, charged with conspiracy in the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, the former governor of Idaho. Harry Orchard had been detained for the crime, and Pinkerton Agent James McParland handled the investigation and arrests of the union leaders. All were acquitted or had charges dropped; Orchard, however, was convicted and sentenced to hang. His sentence was commuted to life in an Idaho prison.
In 1920 Hawley published the four-volume History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains, an expansive history and collection of biographical sketches.
James Hawley died on August 3, 1929 in Boise, Idaho, aged 82.
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