Aylett Hawes was a nineteenth-century medical doctor, politician, planter and slaveholder from Virginia.
10 Facts About Aylett Hawes
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Aylett Hawes then studied medicine and finished his education in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Aylett Hawes owned 25 slaves in Culpeper County in 1810.
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Aylett Hawes won re-election several times, serving from 1802 to 1806, all alongside John Roberts.
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In 1810, voters in what was then Virginia's 9th congressional district elected Aylett Hawes, who ran as a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives.
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However, the 1810 census necessitated redistricting, so in his re-election campaign, Aylett Hawes ran in Virginia's 10th congressional district, whose incumbent John Dawson was moved into Virginia's 11th congressional district, much as Aylett Hawes was moved from the 9th.
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Aylett Hawes won re-election twice before resigning to resume his medical practice and plantations in Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties.
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Aylett Hawes was succeeded by fellow Democratic Republican George F Strother, who had succeeded him in the Virginia House of Delegates about a decade earlier.
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Aylett Hawes died on his farm in Rappahannock County, Virginia, on August 31,1833, and was interred on another plantation, in Sperryville, Virginia.
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Aylett Hawes was the uncle of Richard Hawes, Albert Gallatin Hawes and Aylett Hawes Buckner.