Biographies 1169 also engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World at Chapel Hill in 1887; studied law; was admitted to the War served as a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred bar in 1888 and commenced practice in Wilkesboro, N.C.; and Thirteenth Trench Mortar Battery, Eighty-eighth Divi- chairman of the Wilkes County Democratic executive com- sion, United States Army, 1917-1919; judge of the municipal mittee 1890-1923; member of the Democratic State executive court of Waterloo, Iowa, 1920-1926; county attorney of Black committee 1890-1923; mayor of Wilkesboro 1894-1896; rep- Hawk County, Iowa, 1929-1934; elected as a Republican to resented North Carolina at the centennial of Washington’s the Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses inauguration in New York in 1889; unsuccessful candidate (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; mem- a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March ber of the Federal Trade Commission, 1953-1959, serving 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to as chairman 1955-1959; retired to Waterloo, Iowa, where the Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in he died July 5, 1972; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. North Wilkesboro, N.C.; died in Statesville, N.C., November 22, 1923; interment in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard, Wilkesboro, N.C. H HACKETT, Thomas C., a Representative from Georgia; HABERSHAM, John (brother of Joseph Habersham and born in Georgia, birth date unknown; attended the common uncle of Richard Wylly Habersham), a Delegate from Geor- schools; solicitor general of the Cherokee circuit, 1841-1843; gia; born at ‘‘Beverly,’’ near Savannah, Ga., December 23, served in the State senate in 1845; elected as a Democrat 1754; completed preparatory studies and later attended to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); Princeton College; engaged in mercantile pursuits; served died in Marietta, Ga., October 8, 1851. in the Revolutionary War as first lieutenant and brigade HACKLEY, Aaron, Jr., a Representative from New York; major of the First Georgia Continental Regiment; twice a born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., May 6, prisoner of war; Member of the Continental Congress in 1783; attended the public schools, and was graduated from 1785; appointed Indian agent by General Washington; ap- Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1805; moved to pointed commissioner to the Beaufort convention to adjust Herkimer, N.Y.; elected county clerk in 1812 and again in the Georgia-South Carolina boundary; member of the first 1815; judge advocate in the War of 1812; member of the board of trustees to establish the University of Georgia; State assembly 1814, 1815, and 1818; elected to the Six- secretary of the Georgia branch of the Society of the Cin- teenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); district at- cinnati upon its organization; collector of customs at Savan- torney of Herkimer County 1828-1833; again a member of nah from 1789 until his death near Savannah, Ga., Decem- the State assembly in 1837; justice of the county court of ber 17, 1799; interment in Colonial Park Cemetery. St. Lawrence County, N.Y., in 1823 and 1824; master in Bibliography: Jones, Charles Colcock. A Biographical Sketch of the chancery; recorder of Utica, N.Y.; died in New York City Honorable Major John Habersham of Georgia. 1886. Reprint, New York: W. Abbatt, 1909. on December 28, 1868; interment in Trinity Church Ceme- tery. HABERSHAM, Joseph (brother of John Habersham and uncle of Richard W. Habersham), a Delegate from Georgia; HACKNEY, Thomas, a Representative from Missouri; born in Savannah, Ga., July 28, 1751; attended preparatory born near Campbellsville, Giles County, Tenn., December schools and Princeton College; became successful merchant, 11, 1861; moved with his parents to Jackson County, Ill., planter, and, with his cousin Joseph Clay, engaged in the in 1864; attended the common schools of Jackson County, mercantile business; member of the council of safety and the Southern Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, and the Provincial Council in 1775; major of a battalion of Geor- the University of Missouri at Columbia; studied law; was gia militiamen and subsequently a colonel in the Continental admitted to the bar September 18, 1886, and commenced Army; Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1785; mem- practice in Carthage, Mo.; also interested in zinc and lead ber of the convention in 1788 which ratified the Federal mines in the Joplin district; member of the State house Constitution; mayor of the city of Savannah 1792-1793; ap- of representatives in 1901; elected as a Democrat to the pointed Postmaster General of the United States by Presi- Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccess- dent Washington in 1795 and served until 1801; president ful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Con- of the branch bank of the United States at Savannah, Ga., gress; resumed the practice of law in Carthage, Mo.; delegate from 1802 until his death on November 17, 1815. to the Democratic National Convention in 1912; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1914 and continued the practice of HABERSHAM, Richard Wylly (nephew of John law; general counsel for the Missouri Pacific Railroad 1914- Habersham and Joseph Habersham), a Representative from 1932; retired from public life and resided in Kansas City, Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., in December 1786; attended Mo., until his death there on December 24, 1946; interment private schools, and was graduated from Princeton College in Elmwood Cemetery. in 1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- menced practice in Savannah, Ga.; appointed United States HADLEY, Lindley Hoag, a Representative from Wash- attorney and served until 1825, when he resigned; attorney ington; born near Sylvania, Parke County, Ind., June 19, general of Georgia; moved to Clarksville, Habersham Coun- 1861; attended the common schools of his native city, ty, in 1835; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Bloomingdale (Ind.) Academy, and Illinois Wesleyan Univer- Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839, sity, Bloomington, Ill.; taught school in Rockville, Ind., 1884- until his death; died in Clarksville, Ga., December 2, 1842; 1889; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1889; moved interment in the Old Cemetery. to the State of Washington in 1890 and settled in Whatcom (now Bellingham), where he practiced law until elected to HACKETT, Richard Nathaniel, a Representative from Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and North Carolina; born in Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, N.C., to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March December 4, 1866; attended the Wilkesboro High School, 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to and was graduated from the University of North Carolina the Seventy-third Congress; reengaged in the practice of 1170 Biographical Directory law in Washington, D.C., until 1940, when he retired from 1975-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for reelection active life and moved to Wilton, Conn.; died in Wallingford, to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; president, Premium Conn., November 1, 1948; interment in St. Matthew’s Ceme- Companies; is a resident of Alexandria, Va. tery, Wilton, Conn. HAGEL, Charles Timothy (Chuck), a Senator from Ne- HADLEY, William Flavius Lester, a Representative braska; born in North Platte, Nebraska, October 4, 1946; from Illinois; born near Collinsville, Madison County, Ill., graduated from St. Bonaventure High School, Columbus, June 15, 1847; attended the common schools; was graduated Neb.; graduated from the Brown Institute for Radio and from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., in June 1867, and Television, Minneapolis, MN, 1966; graduated from Univer- from the law department of the University of Michigan at sity of Nebraska, Omaha, 1971; served in the U.S. Army Ann Arbor in 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and infantry, attaining the rank of Sergeant E-5, 1967-1968, and commenced practice at Edwardsville, Ill.; member of the serving in Vietnam in 1968; newscaster and talk show host State senate in 1886; delegate to the Republican National in Omaha 1969-1971; administrative assistant to Represent- Convention in 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- ative John Y. McCollister (R-Neb.) 1971-1977; manager of fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death government affairs for Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, of Frederick Remann and served from December 2, 1895, Washington, D.C. 1977-1980; deputy administrator, United to March 3, 1897; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in States Veterans Administration, 1981-1982; investment 1896; engaged in banking; died in Riverside, Calif., April banker and business executive in Washington and Omaha; 25, 1901; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Edwardsville, deputy director and chief executive officer of the Economic Ill. Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7) in 1990; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1996; reelected HAGAN, George Elliott, a Representative from Georgia; in 2002 for the term ending January 3, 2009. born in Sylvania, Screven County, Ga., May 24, 1916; at- tended the Screven County public schools and the University HAGEN, Harlan Francis, a Representative from Cali- of Georgia; served five terms in the State house of represent- fornia; born in Lawton, Ramsey County,