Roland H. Hartley
10thGovernor of Washington
In office January 14, 1925 – January 11, 1933
Lieutenant	W. Lon Johnson John Arthur Gellatly
Preceded by	Louis F. Hart
Succeeded by	Clarence D. Martin
Member of theWashington House of Representatives from the48th district
In office January 11, 1915 – January 8, 1917
Preceded by	Fred K. Overman
Succeeded by	S. Frank Spencer
13th Mayor ofEverett, Washington
In office January 1, 1910 – January 1, 1912
Preceded by	Newton Jones
Succeeded by	Richard B. Hassell
Personal details
Born	Roland Hill Hartley (1864-06-26)June 26, 1864 Shogomoc,Colony of New Brunswick,British North America
Died	September 21, 1952(1952-09-21) (aged 88) Seattle,Washington, U.S.
Political party	Republican

Roland Hill Hartley (June 26, 1864 – September 21, 1952) was a Canadian-American politician who served as thetenth governor of Washington from 1925 to 1933. A member of theRepublican Party, he was defeated for a third term during theGreat Depression, and was succeeded by a Democrat.

Born inNew Brunswick, Canada, he moved toMinnesota in the United States as a young man and entered the timber industry. In 1902 he moved toEverett, Washington, where he ultimately had interests in several timber companies and a tugboat company.^[1]

In 1910 he entered electoral politics, serving one term as mayor of Everett. Later he was elected to the State House, where he served one term.

Hartley, the eighth of twelve children, was born atShogomoc in theBritish colony of New Brunswick on June 26, 1864. (It became the Province of New Brunswick afterCanadian Confederation in 1867).^[2] He was the son of Rev. Edward Hartley and Rebecca Barker (Whitehead) Hartley.

Hartley moved toMinnesota about 1878, joining older brothers Wilder, Benjamin, and Guilford inBrainerd, Minnesota.

After moving to Minnesota, he worked summers on bonanza farms inDakota Territory and winters in the logging industry. He later relocated toMinneapolis, finding work as a bookkeeper for Clough Brothers Lumber Company.

In 1888, he married Nina M. Clough, daughter ofDavid Clough, cementing his ties to Clough Brothers. The couple had three children, Edward, David, and Mary.^[3]

Hartley rose to become manager and then Vice President of Clough Brothers. His father-in-law was electedGovernor of Minnesota in 1895, and in 1897 Hartley began serving as his private secretary.^[4] During theSpanish–American War of 1898, he additionally served as the Governor's representative and staff aide to theMinnesota National Guard, acquiring the honorific title of Colonel.

In 1900, David Clough moved toEverett, Washington to establish a new sawmill. Hartley, in turn, managed development of the newCass Lake, Minnesota townsite for his older brother Guildford Hartley.

Hartley rejoined his father-in-law in Everett in 1902, eventually assuming roles as either manager or owner of Hartley and Lovejoy Logging Company, the Clark-Nickerson Lumber Company, the Everett Logging Company, the Clough-Hartley Mill, and Everett City Tug Boat Company.^[3]

Hartley had joined the Republican Party. He was elected mayor ofEverett, Washington, serving one term from 1910 to 1912. He was next elected in 1914 to theWashington House of Representatives, serving from 1915 to 1917.

Hartley was elected, in 1925, as tenthgovernor of Washington.^[5] His father-in-lawDavid Clough arranged to have thegavel used for his swearing-in as governor ofMinnesota to be the one used for the swearing-in of his son-in-law Hartley as governor in Washington.

Hartley's major accomplishments during his governorship were the creation of a centralized state highway department and passage of new state timber laws.

In 1925, he vetoed House Bill 131, which would have created a separate state prison for women.^[6] The bill had passed the legislature under the sponsorship ofBelle Reeves (D-Chelan County) andMabel Ingersoll Miller (R-Snohomish County).^[6] In his veto message, Hartley wrote that if the bill^[7]

is to provide an institution in which the state is to undertake the moral and physical regeneration of hapless and fallen women, the effort is futile and the undertaking doomed to failure before it is begun. Morality cannot be legislated, nor is there any escape from the truth of the saying, "Protect a fool against his follies and you populate the world with fools."

Hartley was the first WashingtonRepublican governor to serve two terms and to run for a third. He lost the Republican primary tolieutenant governorJohn Arthur Gellatly and was succeeded byClarence D. Martin.

Hartley died inSeattle,Washington, on September 21, 1952. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery (Everett, Washington).

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