# Aylett Hawes

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American politician (1768–1833)

Aylett Hawes Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Culpeper district In office December 1, 1802 – December 3, 1806 Serving with John Roberts (Culpeper) Preceded by Moses Green Succeeded by George F. Strother Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th district In office March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 Preceded by John Love Succeeded by John Hungerford Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 10th district In office March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817 Preceded by John Dawson (U.S. politician) Succeeded by George F. Strother Personal details Born (1768-04-21)April 21, 1768 Culpeper County, Virginia Colony, British America Died August 31, 1833(1833-08-31) (aged 65) Rappahannock County, Virginia, U.S. Party Democratic-Republican Alma mater University of Edinburgh, Scotland Profession Doctor, planter, politician

**Aylett Hawes** (April 21, 1768 – August 31, 1833) was a nineteenth-century medical doctor, politician, planter and slaveholder from [Virginia](/source/Virginia).[1][2]

## Early life and education

Born in [Culpeper County](/source/Culpeper_County%2C_Virginia) in the [Colony of Virginia](/source/Colony_of_Virginia), Hawes received a private classical education. He then studied medicine and finished his education in [Edinburgh, Scotland](/source/Edinburgh).

## Career

Upon returning to Virginia, Hawes practiced medicine as well as bought several plantations in Culpeper County and what became Rappahannock County, Virginia, which he farmed using enslaved labor. He owned 25 slaves in Culpeper County in 1810.[3] A decade later, Hawes owned 49 slaves.[4] In the last census before his death, he owned 70 slaves.[5]

Culpeper County voters elected Hawes as one of their two representatives in the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates). He won re-election several times, serving from 1802 to 1806, all alongside John Roberts.[6]

In 1810, voters in what was then [Virginia's 9th congressional district](/source/Virginia's_9th_congressional_district) elected Hawes, who ran as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)) to the [United States House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives). However, the 1810 census necessitated redistricting, so in his re-election campaign, Hawes ran in [Virginia's 10th congressional district](/source/Virginia's_10th_congressional_district), whose incumbent [John Dawson](/source/John_Dawson_(Virginia_politician)) was moved into Virginia's 11th congressional district, much as Hawes was moved from the 9th. Hawes won re-election twice before resigning to resume his medical practice and plantations in Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties. He was succeeded by fellow Democratic Republican [George F. Strother](/source/George_F._Strother), who had succeeded him in the Virginia House of Delegates about a decade earlier.

## Death and legacy

Hawes died on his farm in [Rappahannock County, Virginia](/source/Rappahannock_County%2C_Virginia), on August 31, 1833, and was interred on another plantation, in [Sperryville, Virginia](/source/Sperryville%2C_Virginia). He was the uncle of [Richard Hawes](/source/Richard_Hawes), [Albert Gallatin Hawes](/source/Albert_Gallatin_Hawes) and [Aylett Hawes Buckner](/source/Aylett_Hawes_Buckner).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** - United States Congress. ["Aylett Hawes (id: H000361)"](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000361). *[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WaPo_012022_2-0)** Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo (January 20, 2022). ["More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/). *[Washington Post](/source/Washington_Post)*. Retrieved January 30, 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 1810 U.S. Federal Census for Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** 1820 U.S. Federal Census for Culpeper County, Virginia

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 1830 U.S. Federal Census for Culpeper County, Virginia

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Cynthia Miller Leonard, Virginia's General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978), pp. 227, 231, 235, 239

U.S. House of Representatives Preceded by John Love Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district March 4, 1811 – March 4, 1813 Succeeded by John Hungerford Preceded by John Dawson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 10th congressional district March 4, 1813 – March 4, 1817 Succeeded by George Strother

v t e United States representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district Bland Giles Eggleston Giles Thompson Love Hawes Hungerford Ball Stevenson Taylor Roane Hunter Chilton Pendleton Morton Strother Letcher Harris R. Bowen Terry Pridemore Richmond Fulkerson H. Bowen Trigg H. Bowen Buchanan Marshall Walker Rhea C. Slemp C. B. Slemp Peery Shaffer Flannagan Fugate Wampler Jennings Wampler Boucher Griffith All Virginia districts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · at-large

v t e United States representatives from Virginia's 10th congressional district Griffin Harrison Gray Dawson Hawes Strother Moore Rives Gordon Chinn Taliaferro Lucas Bedinger Parker Faulkner Kidwell Clemens Brown (inactive 1863–85) J. Tucker Yost H. Tucker Yost Quarles H. Flood H. Tucker J. Flood (inactive 1933–53) Broyhill Fisher Wolf Comstock Wexton Subramanyam All Virginia districts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · at-large

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