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Richard Hawes (February 6, 1797 – May 25, 1877) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and the second Confederate Governor of Kentucky. He was part of the politically influential Hawes family. His brother, uncle, and cousin also served as U.S. Representatives, and his grandson Harry B. Hawes was a member of the United States Senate. Hawes began his political career as an ardent Whig and was a close friend of the party's founder, Henry Clay. When the party declined and dissolved in the 1850s, Hawes became a Democrat, and his relationship with Clay cooled. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hawes was a supporter of Kentucky's doctrine of armed neutrality. When the Commonwealth's neutrality was breached in September 1861, Hawes fled to Virginia and enlisted as a brigade commissary under Confederate general Humphrey Marshall. When Kentucky's Confederate government was formed in Russellville, Hawes was offered the position of state auditor, but declined. Months later, he was selected to be Confederate governor of the Commonwealth following George W. Johnson's death at the Battle of Shiloh. Hawes and the Confederate government traveled with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee, and when Bragg invaded Kentucky in October 1862, he captured Frankfort and held an inauguration ceremony for Hawes. The ceremony was interrupted, however, by forces under Union general Don Carlos Buell, and the Confederates were driven from the Commonwealth following the Battle of Perryville. Hawes relocated to Virginia, where he continued to lobby President Jefferson Davis to attempt another invasion of Kentucky. At the end of the war, the Confederate government of Kentucky in exile ceased to exist, and Hawes returned to his home in Paris, Kentucky. He swore an oath of allegiance to the Union, and was allowed to return to his law practice. He was elected county judge of Bourbon County, a post he held until his death in 1877. ==Early life== Richard Hawes was born on February 6, 1797 near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hawes, Richard, (1797–1877) )〕 He was one of eleven children born to Richard and Clara Walker Hawes.〔"Richard Hawes in Powell, p. 115〕 The Haweses were a political family; Richard's brother, Albert Gallatin Hawes, nephew, Aylett Hawes, and cousin, Aylett Hawes Buckner, all served in the U.S. House of Representatives.〔 In 1810, the family moved to Kentucky, settling in Fayette County, near Lexington.〔"Hawes, Richard" in Kleber, pp. 418–419〕 Part of Hawes's early education was obtained through the Jessamine County school conducted by Samuel Wilson.〔Harrison in ''Register'', p. 28〕 On November 13, 1818, Hawes married Hetty Morrison Nicholas of Lexington.〔 He pursued classical studies at Transylvania University, then studied law under Robert C. Wickliffe.〔 Hawes and Wickliffe became law partners upon the former's admission to the bar in 1818.〔 Due to overcrowding of the bar in Lexington, Hawes moved to Winchester in 1824.〔 While there, he became part owner of a rope and bagging factory with Benjamin H. Buckner.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Hawes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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