John Henry Hobart Haws (1809 – January 27, 1858) was a

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from New York. Born in New York City in 1809, he graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1827; he studied law, was admitted to the

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and practiced in New York City. Haws was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, holding office from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853; he was unsuccessful for reelection in 1852. Haws died in New York City in 1858; original interment was in St. Stephen's Cemetery and reinterment was in Green-Wood Cemetery,

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, in 1866.

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