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R. Stephen Hawley, who was 94 years old, died early this morning in Arizona.
Before his retirement, he had been elected to 10 terms in the New York State Assembly, serving 20 years beginning in 1973.
Hawley, a World War II Veteran, was a 1939 graduate of Batavia High School and at the beginning of his political career owned a family farm in Batavia.
Since 2006, Hawley’s son Steven M. Hawley has taken up his mantle of local representation in the State Assembly.
