Politics
Hawley won Oregon's 1st Congressional District as a Republican in 1906. He was then re-elected every two years to Congress for the next 12 sessions of Congress. Hawley served in Washington, DC from March 4, 1907 until March 3, 1933. While in Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means for the Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses. Hawley was then a co-sponsor of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff in 1930, which raised import tariffs to record levels.
Hawley did not win his party's nomination for his seat in 1932, and left office in March 1933. He returned home to Salem where he practiced law. Willis C. Hawley died on July 24, 1941, at the age of 77 in Salem and was interred at that city's City View Cemetery.
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