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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Willis C. Hawley |
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Salem, Oregon , United States |
| Email | None |
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May 05, 1864
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| Died | July 24, 1941
(77 years)
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| Info | Ways and Means Chairman Willis C. Hawley (R-OR), along with Senate Finance Chairman Reed Smoot of Utah, took the lead in tariff revision as the prosperous 1920s faded into the Great Depression. They put their names to one of the most controversial measures ever enacted, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The bill raised duties to the highest level in American history. Other nations retaliated by shutting out U.S. goods. Smoot-Hawley was the last bill in which Congress set the actual tariff rates.
HAWLEY, Willis Chatman, a Representative from Oregon; born on a farm in the old Belknap settlement near Monroe, Benton County, Oreg., May 5, 1864; attended the country schools and was graduated from the academic and law departments of Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., in 1888; principal of the Umpqua Academy, Wilbur, Oreg., 1884-1886; president of the Oregon State Normal School at Drain 1888-1891; was admitted to the bar in Oregon in 1893; president of Willamette University 1893-1902 and was professor of history and economics for sixteen years; engaged in numerous business and educational enterprises; member of the National Forest Reservation Commission; member of the Special Committee on Rural Credits created by Congress in 1915; member of the Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; returned to Salem and resumed the practice of law; died in Salem, Oreg., July 24, 1941; interment in City View Cemetery.
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