| Hackett, Richard Nathaniel |
| (4 Dec. 186622 Nov. 1923), attorney and congressman, was born in Wilkesboro, the son of Dr. Robert Franklin and Caroline Gordon Hackett. His mother was a sister of Brigadier General James B. Gordon. Hackett received his early education in the local schools and was graduated from The University of North Carolina in 1887. He studied law under Colonel George N. Folk in Caldwell County and was admitted to the bar in 1888. He established a practice in Wilkesboro and became a prominent figure in the local Democratic party, serving as chairman of the Wilkes County Democratic Executive Committee from 1890 to 1923. In 1889 he represented North Carolina at the centennial of Washington's inauguration in New York City. He served as mayor of Wilkesboro from 1894 to 1896, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. In 1906, however, he was elected to the Sixtieth Congress but was defeated for reelection by the Republican candidate, C. H. Cowles, in 1908. |
| Following his defeat, Hackett became active in the Masonic order and served two terms as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina in 1910 and 1911. It was during his administration that the movement to establish the Masonic and Eastern Star Home crystallized; the cornerstone of the home was laid before his retirement from office. |
| Hackett married Lois Long, daughter of B. F. Long of Statesville, on 31 Jan. 1907 and they were the parents of Lois Long. He died in Statesville and was buried in St. Paul's Episcopal churchyard, Wilkesboro. The Dialectic Society at The University of North Carolina owns an oil portrait of him. |
| SEE: Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1961); John L. Cheney, Jr., ed., North Carolina Government, 15851974 (1975); Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, Proceedings (1924); North Carolina Bar Association, Proceedings 26 (1924); Oxford, Orphan's Friend and Masonic Journal, 9 Dec. 1910, 20 Jan. 1911; C. Beauregard Poland, Twentieth Century Statesmen, North Carolina's Political Leaders, 19001901 (n.d.). |
| Hagler (Arataswa or Oroloswa) |
| (d. 30 Aug. 1763), king or head man of the Catawbas (ca. 174963), lived and died in the region that was in bitter dispute between the two Carolinas. Upon the murder of The Young Warrior (Yanabe Yalangway) by northern Indians, Hagler was recognized by provincial authorities in Charles Town as king. Governor James Glen of South Carolina and his counterpart in New York attempted to end the ancient feud between the Catawbas and the Six Nations composing the Iroquois Confederacy by arranging a meeting in Albany in 1751. Hagler, accompanied by Lieutenant Governor William Bull, led the Catawba delegation to New York. Although an agreement was reached, the Catawba chief complained in subsequent years of continued harassment of his people by members of the Six Nations. |
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