Albert Wahl Hawkes (November 20, 1878May 9, 1971) was a
United States senator
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from
New Jersey
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.
Studies
He was born in
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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on November 20, 1878. He attended the public schools and graduated from
Chicago College of Law
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in 1900, gaining admission to the
bar
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the same year. He studied chemistry at Lewis Institute (now the
Illinois Institute of Technology
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) for two years and engaged in the chemical business.
Businessman
During the
First World War
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, Albert Hawkes served as director of the Chemical Alliance in
Washington, D.C.
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(1917–1918). From 1927 to 1942, Hawkes served as president of Congoleum-Nairn, Inc., at
Kearny, New Jersey
Kearny ( ) is a town in the western part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Newark. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 40,684,Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1941 and 1942, a member of the
Newark
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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.
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, in 1942.
Senator
In 1942, Albert Hawkes was elected in New Jersey as a
Republican
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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
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, until 1961, when he moved to Pasadena, California.
Hawkes was a trustee of the
Freedoms Foundation
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, where the Hawkes Library (in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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) was named after him. He died on May 9, 1971, in
Palm Desert, California
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Montclair, New Jersey
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.
His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of the late
Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke (born Alfred Cooke; 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States.Masterpiece Theatre
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