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

Born inCulpeper County in theColony of Virginia, Hawes received a private classical education. He then studied medicine and finished his education inEdinburgh, Scotland.

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 theVirginia 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 thenVirginia's 9th congressional district elected Hawes, who ran as aDemocratic-Republican to theUnited States House of Representatives. However, the 1810 census necessitated redistricting, so in his re-election campaign, Hawes ran inVirginia's 10th congressional district, whose incumbentJohn Dawson 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 RepublicanGeorge F. Strother, who had succeeded him in the Virginia House of Delegates about a decade earlier.

Hawes died on his farm inRappahannock County, Virginia, on August 31, 1833, and was interred on another plantation, inSperryville, Virginia. He was the uncle ofRichard Hawes,Albert Gallatin Hawes andAylett Hawes Buckner.

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