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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Stanley Knapp Hathaway
|image=Stanley Hathaway of WY.png
|office=27th [[Governor]] of [[Wyoming]]
|term_start=January 2, 1967
|term_end=January 6, 1975
|preceded=Clifford Peter Hansen
|succeeded=Edgar Jacob Herschler
|office2=40th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]]
|presiden2=[[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]]
|term_star2=June 12, 1975
|term_end2=October 9, 1975
|preceded2=Rogers Clark Ballard Morton
|succeeded2=Thomas S. Kleppe
|birth_date2=July 19, 1924
|birth_place=Osceola, [[Nebraska]]
|death_date=October 4, 2005 (aged 81)
|death_place=[[Cheyenne]], Wyoming
|resting_place=Valley View Cemetery in Torrington in Goshen County, Wyoming
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Roberta Louise "Bobby" Harley Hathaway<br> (married 1948-2004, her death)
|children=Susan H. Garrett<br>
Sandra H. D'Amico<br>
'''Parents:'''<br>
Robert C. and Lily Koehler Knapp<br>
'''Adopted parents:'''<br>
Franklin Earl and Velma Hathaway
|alma_mater=University of Wyoming<br>University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws) 12}}
|branch=[[United States Army]] Air Corps]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
|awards=French Croix de Guerre<br>
U.S. Presidential Unit Citations<br>
Five Air Medals}}
'''Stanley Knapp Hathaway''', known as '''Stan Hathaway''' (July 19, 1924 – October 4, 2005), was from 1967 to 1975 the 27th [[governor]] of [[Wyoming]]. Thereafter, he served nearly four months as the [[United States Secretary of Interior]] under appointment of his fellow [[Republican Party|Republican]], [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]]
==Background==
Hathaway was the fifth of six children born in Osceola in Polk County in east central [[Nebraska]], to Robert C. Knapp and the former Lily Koehler.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHwjAQAAIAAJ&q=Lilly+(Koehler)+Knapp|title=Bits and Pieces|year=1966}}</ref> After the death of his mother when Stanley was only two years of age, he was adopted by a cousin, Velma, and her husband, Franklin Earl Hathaway. The couple homesteaded near Huntley in Goshen County in southeastern Wyoming, where he was the only graduating senior in the 1941 class at Huntley High School.<ref name=Vanderpoel>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography" ISBN 0-9742860-1-X, January 2003.</ref><ref name=findagrave>Stanley Knapp Hathaway (1924-2005) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
After enrolling briefly at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, the state's only four-year university, Hathaway enlisted in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps following the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]] on December 7, 1941, which brought the United States into [[World War II]]. Hathaway was trained as a [[radio]] operator and gunner, he flew B-17 bombers from [[England]] and flew thirty-five combat missions over [[France]] and [[Germany]].<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=WYSBJ200510>"Stanley K. Hathaway - Wyoming's Leader, Lawyer and Friend",''Journal of the Wyoming State Bar,'' October 2005 Issue. [http://www.wyomingbar.org/bar_journal/article.html?id=48 Wyoming State Bar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228001631/http://www.wyomingbar.org/bar_journal/article.html?id=48 |date=December 28, 2010}}</ref>
On one mission under General [[Jimmy Doolittle]] over Leipzig, Germany, Hathaway's plane and crew took heavy enemy fire while attacking an oil refinery. During the Leipzig mission, a total of fifty-six aircraft and more than five hundred American troops were lost. Hathaway's unit had a 50 percent casualty rate.<ref name=Vanderpoel />
Hathaway was shot down in the fall of 1944 while on a mission to Frankfurt, Germany. They lost three engines before crash-landing in a field in France, where they were eventually rescued by the French Resistance.<ref name=Vanderpoel /> Hathaway received the French Croix de Guerre, U.S. Presidential Unit Citations, and five Air Medals.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
After his discharge from the Air Corps, Hathaway enrolled at the [[University of Nebraska]], where he earned a bachelor's degree. In 1950, he graduated from the UN College of Law in the capital city of [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]], At the university, he met Roberta Louise "Bobby" Harley (1924-2004); they wed in 1948 and moved to Torrington in Goshen County, Wyoming, where he set up his law practice, and his wife taught [[English language]] at Torrington Junior High School. They had two daughters, Susan H. Garrett and Sandra H. D'Amico.
== Political career ==
Hathaway served from 1954 to 1962 as a Goshen County prosecuting attorney.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/> In 1962, he was elected the Goshen County Republican chairman and the secretary of the Republican State Central Committee. In 1963, he was elected chairman of the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee and served for two years on the [[Republican National Committee]].
In 1966, Hathaway was elected governor of Wyoming, a Republican-leaning year. He defeated the Democrat Ernest Wilkerson, 54.3 to 45.7 percent, an attorney from Casper who proposed a state severance tax.<ref>Taxing Wyoming Minerals: Severance Taxes and Permanent Funds | WyoHistory.org, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
In 1970, Hathaway he defeated the Democrat John J. Rooney (1915-1998), 62.8 to 37.2 percent and bucked the nation Democratic tide that year. He declined to run for a third term in 1974 and was succeeded by the Democrat, Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1990), who defeated the Republican state Senator Richard A. "Dick" Jones (1910-2008), 55.9 to 44.1 percent.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Governor Hathaway worked to reorganize state government and to enact new environmental laws on air and water quality, surface mining regulations, and the establishment of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. Other new departments created during the Hathaway administration were a Department of Recreation to oversee and improve care of state parks and to provide support for Wyoming's tourism industry, and a Department of Economic Planning and Development to promote economic growth.<ref>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography", ISBN 9742860-1-X, January 2003, pp. 159-160.</ref> The state economy was sluggish when Hathaway was elected governor, but he set in motion initiatives which brought a booming economy by the time he left office.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Wilkerson lost the 1966 election, but winner Hathaway also pushed for the enactment of Wyoming's first mineral [[severance tax]] in 1969, and the establishment of a Permanent Mineral Trust Fund, financed by a 1.5 percent tax on the extraction of minerals. The trust fund reached $2.25 billion by the time of Hathaway's death. The taxes go into the state's general fund.
During his tenure as governor, Hathaway was the chairman of the Western Governor's Conference,<ref>Stanley K. Hathaway - National Governors Association (nga.org), accessed July 22, 2021.</ref> of which [[Ronald Reagan]] was a member. Hathaway was the chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, the National Governor's Conference Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Management, and the Federation of Rocky Mountain States. Among his last appointments in office was that of Richard Van Thomas (1932-2010) to the Wyoming Supreme Court, a position that Thomas held from December 1974 until February 2001.
As her state's First Lady, Bobby Hathaway worked for the establishment of an Arts Council supported entirely by donated funds. She also pushed for an Indian Council to improve the welfare of [[Native Americans]] living on reservations, including the expansion of government mental health programs.<ref>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography", ISBN 0-9742860-1-X, January 2003, pp. 172-174.</ref><ref>Former first lady was force all her own | Wyoming News | trib.com, accessed July 22, 2021}}</ref>
With a large majority of U.S. senators being Democrat at the time, Hathaway's confirmation for Secretary of the Interior was contentious.<ref>Jessie Stearns, "Defending Stan," Star-Tribune Capital Bureau, ''The Casper Star-Tribune,'' June 3, 1975.</ref> During his brief tenure at Interior, he pushed for the federal [[coal]] leasing program. However, declining health resulted in his resignation. President Ford then nominated [[U.S. Representative]] Thomas S. Kleppe of [[North Dakota]] to fill the Cabinet position.
Upon returning to Wyoming in October 1975, Hathaway co-founded Hathaway, Speight and Kunz law firm in the capital city of [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]. He was named an emeritus member of the University of Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, named for William Doyle Ruckelshaus (1932-2019), the first and fifth director of the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], who came to Wyoming at the urging of then [[U.S. Senator]] [[Alan Simpson]], another Moderate Republican.<ref>Renowned GOP enviro figure had outsize impact on Wyoming | WyoFile, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
In 2009, Democratic Governor [[David D. Freudenthal]] awarded the "Governor's Art Award for Excellence in the Arts" to Stanley and Bobby Hathaway.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511120129/http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/hathaway.php|author=Robin Beaver|title=Stan Hathaway - Wyoming's Favorite Son|publisher=Made in Wyoming Profiles|date=2010}}</ref> In 2005, the Wyoming legislature funded $400 million for a "Hathaway Student Scholarship" program under which Wyoming high school graduates who qualify can receive a Hathaway scholarship for the full cost of tuition and fees at the University of Wyoming, or for attendance at any of the state's community colleges.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Hathaway died in Cheyenne at the age of eighty-one. His wife predeceased him a year earlier. The Hathaways are interred in Valley View Cemetery in Torrington.<ref name=findagrave/>
Following his death, the legislature unanimously passed a joint resolution memorializing Governor Hathaway as "one of Wyoming's greatest natural resources."<ref>58th Wyoming legislature resolution, March 6, 2006.</ref>ch
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Wyoming]]
[[Category:Nebraska]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Former United States Secretaries of the Interior]]
|name=Stanley Knapp Hathaway
|image=Stanley Hathaway of WY.png
|office=27th [[Governor]] of [[Wyoming]]
|term_start=January 2, 1967
|term_end=January 6, 1975
|preceded=Clifford Peter Hansen
|succeeded=Edgar Jacob Herschler
|office2=40th [[United States Secretary of the Interior]]
|presiden2=[[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]]
|term_star2=June 12, 1975
|term_end2=October 9, 1975
|preceded2=Rogers Clark Ballard Morton
|succeeded2=Thomas S. Kleppe
|birth_date2=July 19, 1924
|birth_place=Osceola, [[Nebraska]]
|death_date=October 4, 2005 (aged 81)
|death_place=[[Cheyenne]], Wyoming
|resting_place=Valley View Cemetery in Torrington in Goshen County, Wyoming
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Roberta Louise "Bobby" Harley Hathaway<br> (married 1948-2004, her death)
|children=Susan H. Garrett<br>
Sandra H. D'Amico<br>
'''Parents:'''<br>
Robert C. and Lily Koehler Knapp<br>
'''Adopted parents:'''<br>
Franklin Earl and Velma Hathaway
|alma_mater=University of Wyoming<br>University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws) 12}}
|branch=[[United States Army]] Air Corps]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
|awards=French Croix de Guerre<br>
U.S. Presidential Unit Citations<br>
Five Air Medals}}
'''Stanley Knapp Hathaway''', known as '''Stan Hathaway''' (July 19, 1924 – October 4, 2005), was from 1967 to 1975 the 27th [[governor]] of [[Wyoming]]. Thereafter, he served nearly four months as the [[United States Secretary of Interior]] under appointment of his fellow [[Republican Party|Republican]], [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]]
==Background==
Hathaway was the fifth of six children born in Osceola in Polk County in east central [[Nebraska]], to Robert C. Knapp and the former Lily Koehler.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHwjAQAAIAAJ&q=Lilly+(Koehler)+Knapp|title=Bits and Pieces|year=1966}}</ref> After the death of his mother when Stanley was only two years of age, he was adopted by a cousin, Velma, and her husband, Franklin Earl Hathaway. The couple homesteaded near Huntley in Goshen County in southeastern Wyoming, where he was the only graduating senior in the 1941 class at Huntley High School.<ref name=Vanderpoel>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography" ISBN 0-9742860-1-X, January 2003.</ref><ref name=findagrave>Stanley Knapp Hathaway (1924-2005) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
After enrolling briefly at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, the state's only four-year university, Hathaway enlisted in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps following the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]] on December 7, 1941, which brought the United States into [[World War II]]. Hathaway was trained as a [[radio]] operator and gunner, he flew B-17 bombers from [[England]] and flew thirty-five combat missions over [[France]] and [[Germany]].<ref name=findagrave/><ref name=WYSBJ200510>"Stanley K. Hathaway - Wyoming's Leader, Lawyer and Friend",''Journal of the Wyoming State Bar,'' October 2005 Issue. [http://www.wyomingbar.org/bar_journal/article.html?id=48 Wyoming State Bar] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228001631/http://www.wyomingbar.org/bar_journal/article.html?id=48 |date=December 28, 2010}}</ref>
On one mission under General [[Jimmy Doolittle]] over Leipzig, Germany, Hathaway's plane and crew took heavy enemy fire while attacking an oil refinery. During the Leipzig mission, a total of fifty-six aircraft and more than five hundred American troops were lost. Hathaway's unit had a 50 percent casualty rate.<ref name=Vanderpoel />
Hathaway was shot down in the fall of 1944 while on a mission to Frankfurt, Germany. They lost three engines before crash-landing in a field in France, where they were eventually rescued by the French Resistance.<ref name=Vanderpoel /> Hathaway received the French Croix de Guerre, U.S. Presidential Unit Citations, and five Air Medals.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
After his discharge from the Air Corps, Hathaway enrolled at the [[University of Nebraska]], where he earned a bachelor's degree. In 1950, he graduated from the UN College of Law in the capital city of [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]], At the university, he met Roberta Louise "Bobby" Harley (1924-2004); they wed in 1948 and moved to Torrington in Goshen County, Wyoming, where he set up his law practice, and his wife taught [[English language]] at Torrington Junior High School. They had two daughters, Susan H. Garrett and Sandra H. D'Amico.
== Political career ==
Hathaway served from 1954 to 1962 as a Goshen County prosecuting attorney.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/> In 1962, he was elected the Goshen County Republican chairman and the secretary of the Republican State Central Committee. In 1963, he was elected chairman of the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee and served for two years on the [[Republican National Committee]].
In 1966, Hathaway was elected governor of Wyoming, a Republican-leaning year. He defeated the Democrat Ernest Wilkerson, 54.3 to 45.7 percent, an attorney from Casper who proposed a state severance tax.<ref>Taxing Wyoming Minerals: Severance Taxes and Permanent Funds | WyoHistory.org, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
In 1970, Hathaway he defeated the Democrat John J. Rooney (1915-1998), 62.8 to 37.2 percent and bucked the nation Democratic tide that year. He declined to run for a third term in 1974 and was succeeded by the Democrat, Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1990), who defeated the Republican state Senator Richard A. "Dick" Jones (1910-2008), 55.9 to 44.1 percent.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Governor Hathaway worked to reorganize state government and to enact new environmental laws on air and water quality, surface mining regulations, and the establishment of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. Other new departments created during the Hathaway administration were a Department of Recreation to oversee and improve care of state parks and to provide support for Wyoming's tourism industry, and a Department of Economic Planning and Development to promote economic growth.<ref>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography", ISBN 9742860-1-X, January 2003, pp. 159-160.</ref> The state economy was sluggish when Hathaway was elected governor, but he set in motion initiatives which brought a booming economy by the time he left office.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Wilkerson lost the 1966 election, but winner Hathaway also pushed for the enactment of Wyoming's first mineral [[severance tax]] in 1969, and the establishment of a Permanent Mineral Trust Fund, financed by a 1.5 percent tax on the extraction of minerals. The trust fund reached $2.25 billion by the time of Hathaway's death. The taxes go into the state's general fund.
During his tenure as governor, Hathaway was the chairman of the Western Governor's Conference,<ref>Stanley K. Hathaway - National Governors Association (nga.org), accessed July 22, 2021.</ref> of which [[Ronald Reagan]] was a member. Hathaway was the chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, the National Governor's Conference Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Management, and the Federation of Rocky Mountain States. Among his last appointments in office was that of Richard Van Thomas (1932-2010) to the Wyoming Supreme Court, a position that Thomas held from December 1974 until February 2001.
As her state's First Lady, Bobby Hathaway worked for the establishment of an Arts Council supported entirely by donated funds. She also pushed for an Indian Council to improve the welfare of [[Native Americans]] living on reservations, including the expansion of government mental health programs.<ref>Sally Vanderpoel, "Stan Hathaway: A Biography", ISBN 0-9742860-1-X, January 2003, pp. 172-174.</ref><ref>Former first lady was force all her own | Wyoming News | trib.com, accessed July 22, 2021}}</ref>
With a large majority of U.S. senators being Democrat at the time, Hathaway's confirmation for Secretary of the Interior was contentious.<ref>Jessie Stearns, "Defending Stan," Star-Tribune Capital Bureau, ''The Casper Star-Tribune,'' June 3, 1975.</ref> During his brief tenure at Interior, he pushed for the federal [[coal]] leasing program. However, declining health resulted in his resignation. President Ford then nominated [[U.S. Representative]] Thomas S. Kleppe of [[North Dakota]] to fill the Cabinet position.
Upon returning to Wyoming in October 1975, Hathaway co-founded Hathaway, Speight and Kunz law firm in the capital city of [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]. He was named an emeritus member of the University of Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, named for William Doyle Ruckelshaus (1932-2019), the first and fifth director of the [[Environmental Protection Agency]], who came to Wyoming at the urging of then [[U.S. Senator]] [[Alan Simpson]], another Moderate Republican.<ref>Renowned GOP enviro figure had outsize impact on Wyoming | WyoFile, accessed July 22, 2021.</ref>
In 2009, Democratic Governor [[David D. Freudenthal]] awarded the "Governor's Art Award for Excellence in the Arts" to Stanley and Bobby Hathaway.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511120129/http://www.madeinwyoming.net/profiles/hathaway.php|author=Robin Beaver|title=Stan Hathaway - Wyoming's Favorite Son|publisher=Made in Wyoming Profiles|date=2010}}</ref> In 2005, the Wyoming legislature funded $400 million for a "Hathaway Student Scholarship" program under which Wyoming high school graduates who qualify can receive a Hathaway scholarship for the full cost of tuition and fees at the University of Wyoming, or for attendance at any of the state's community colleges.<ref name=WYSBJ200510/>
Hathaway died in Cheyenne at the age of eighty-one. His wife predeceased him a year earlier. The Hathaways are interred in Valley View Cemetery in Torrington.<ref name=findagrave/>
Following his death, the legislature unanimously passed a joint resolution memorializing Governor Hathaway as "one of Wyoming's greatest natural resources."<ref>58th Wyoming legislature resolution, March 6, 2006.</ref>ch
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Wyoming]]
[[Category:Nebraska]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Former United States Secretaries of the Interior]]