{{short description|20th-century American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honorable | name = Don Hanaway | image = Don Hanaway (WI).png | caption = | order = 40th | office = Attorney General of Wisconsin | term_start = January 3, 1987 | term_end = January 7, 1991 | governor = Tommy Thompson | predecessor = Bronson La Follette | successor = Jim Doyle | office1 = Wisconsin Circuit Judge for the {{nowrap|Brown Circuit, Branch 4}} | appointer1 = Tommy Thompson | term_start1 = July 1991 | term_end1 = September 7, 1995 | predecessor1 = John Jaekels | successor1 = William C. Griesbach | state_senate2 = Wisconsin | district2 = 2nd | term_start2 = July 11, 1979 | term_end2 = January 3, 1987 | predecessor2 = Tom Petri | successor2 = Robert Cowles | office3 = 27th Mayor of De Pere, Wisconsin | term_start3 = April 1972 | term_end3 = April 1974 | predecessor3 = Roger H. Rebman | successor3 = Robert P. DeGroot | party = Republican | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|12|25}} | birth_place = Stevens Point, Wisconsin, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|9|7|1933|12|25}} | death_place = Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. | resting_place = Allouez Catholic Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum<br />Green Bay, Wisconsin | spouse = Jo Ann | children = 4 | alma_mater = University of Wisconsin–Madison<br />University of Wisconsin Law School | profession = attorney, judge | allegiance = United States | branch = United States Army | service_years = 1954–1956 | rank = | unit = | commands = | battles = }} '''Donald J. Hanaway''' (December 25, 1933{{spnd}}September 7, 1995) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Republican politician from De Pere, Wisconsin. He was the 40th attorney general of Wisconsin, serving from 1987 to 1991, and subsequently served the last four years of his life as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Brown County. Earlier in his career, he was the 27th mayor of De Pere (1972–1974) and served eight years in the Wisconsin Senate (1979–1987).
==Biography==
Hanaway was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Commerce in 1958, and received his juris doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1961. He had previously served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1989-1990,' Biographical Sketch of Donald Hanaway, pg. 6</ref>
Before being elected Attorney General, Hanaway served as a Brown County Assistant District Attorney from 1962 to 1964, and later as a special prosecutor in Brown County from 1967 to 1968. He also served concurrently as the De Pere city attorney from 1965 to 1972, and again from 1976 to 1979. In between those stints as city attorney, he served as mayor of De Pere from 1972 to 1974.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1989-1990,' Biographical Sketch of Donald Hanaway, pg. 6</ref>
Hanaway was elected as a Republican in a special election to the Wisconsin State Senate in July 1979. He was re-elected to the State Senate's 2nd District in 1980, and again in 1984. He served as an assistant minority leader from 1981 to 1982.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1989-1990,' Biographical Sketch of Donald Hanaway, pg. 9</ref>
In 1986, Hanaway ran for attorney general, defeating incumbent Bronson La Follette. He served one term, being defeated for re-election by Jim Doyle in 1990.<ref>[http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1850&keyword=hanaway Hanaway, Donald J. 1933<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Hanaway went on to serve as a Brown County Circuit Judge from 1991 until his death in 1995.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1991-1992,' Judicial Branch, pg. 960</ref> Hanaway died from cancer at a hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He and his wife, Jo Ann, had four children.<ref>'Donald J. Hanaway-obituary,' '''Wisconsin State Journal,''' September 9, 1995, pg. 4B</ref><ref>Former attorney general Don Hanaway dies from cancer,' '''Wisconsin State Journal,''' September 9, 1995, pg. 3B</ref>
==Electoral history== *'''1990 Race for state Attorney General''' **Jim Doyle (D), 51% **Don Hanaway (R) (inc.), 47%
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{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before = Marc Gumz}} {{s-ttl|title = Republican nominee for Attorney General of Wisconsin |years=1986, 1990}} {{s-aft|after = Jeff Wagner}} {{s-par|us-wi-sen}} {{s-bef|before = Tom Petri }} {{s-ttl|title = {{nowrap|Member of the Wisconsin Senate}} {{nowrap|from the 2nd district}} |years= July 11, 1979{{spnd}}January 3, 1987 }} {{s-aft|after = Robert Cowles }} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before = Roger H. Rebman }} {{s-ttl|title = Mayor of De Pere, Wisconsin |years= April 1972{{spnd}}April 1974 }} {{s-aft|after = Robert P. DeGroot }} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before = Bronson La Follette }} {{s-ttl|title = Attorney General of Wisconsin |years=1987–1991 }} {{s-aft|after = Jim Doyle }} {{s-bef|before = John Jaekels }} {{s-ttl|title = {{nowrap|Wisconsin Circuit Judge}} for the {{nowrap|Brown Circuit, Branch 4}} |years= July 1991{{spnd}}September 7, 1995 }} {{s-aft|after = William C. Griesbach }} {{s-end}} {{Wisconsin Attorneys General}} {{authority control}}
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