"New Jersey Senator" Albert W. Hawkes Signed TLS Dated 1946 For Sale

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"New Jersey Senator" Albert W. Hawkes Signed TLS Dated 1946:
$209.99

Up for sale "New Jersey Senator" Albert W. Hawkes Hand Signed TLS Dated 1946. 

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Albert Wahl Hawkes (November

20, 1878 – May 9, 1971) was a United States Senator from New Jersey. He was born in Chicago on November 20, 1878. He attended the public

schools and graduated from Chicago College of Law in

1900, gaining admission to the bar the same year. He studied chemistry at Lewis

Institute (now the Illinois Institute of

Technology) for two years and engaged in the chemical business. During

the First World War, Albert

Hawkes served as director of the Chemical Alliance in Washington, D.C. (1917–1918). From 1927 to 1942, Hawkes

served as president of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., at Kearny, New Jersey. He

assumed chairmanship of the corporation board in 1937. He was president and

director of the Chamber of Commerce of

the United States in 1941 and 1942, a member of the Newark Labor Board,

and a member of the Board to Maintain Industrial Peace in New Jersey 1941-1942.

Hawkes was a member of the National War

Labor Board, Washington, D.C., in 1942. In 1942, Albert Hawkes was elected

in New Jersey as a Republican to

the U.S. Senate and served from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1949. He was not

a candidate for renomination in 1948, and resumed former business activities

in Montclair, New Jersey,

until 1961, when he moved to Pasadena, California. Hawkes

was a trustee of the Freedoms

Foundation, where the Hawkes Library (in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania)

was named after him. He died on May 9, 1971, in Palm Desert, California.

He was interred in Mount Hebron

Cemetery, in Montclair, New Jersey. His

daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the

second wife of the late Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist who

hosted Masterpiece Theatre. 

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