Albert Wahl Hawkes (November 20, 1878May 9, 1971) was a United States senator from New Jersey.

Studies

He was born in Chicago on November 20, 1878. He attended the public schools and graduated from

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in 1900, gaining admission to the

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the same year. He studied chemistry at Lewis Institute (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) for two years and engaged in the chemical business.

Businessman

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

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of the United States in 1941 and 1942, a member of the

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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., in 1942.

Senator

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

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. Hawkes was a trustee of the

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, 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 Jane White Cooke (January 10, 1913 – May 8, 2011) was an American portrait painter. Cooke was born Frances Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1913. A war widow, in 1946 she remarried to journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke ...

, was the second wife of the late Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist who hosted Masterpiece Theatre.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkes, Albert W 1878 births 1971 deaths Politicians from Chicago Republican Party United States senators from New Jersey New Jersey Republicans Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Burials at Mount Hebron Cemetery (Montclair, New Jersey)