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Stanley Knapp Hathaway was born July 19, 1924 in Osceola, Nebraska. He was the son of Robert and Lily Knapp. His mother died when he was only two years old. He was later adopted by Franklin and Velma Hathaway.
He entered the University of Wyoming, but dropped out to join the military. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces. Following the war, he graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1948, and a law degree in 1950. He was married to the former Roberta Hurley, (who died in 2004), they had two children.
From 1954 until his election as State GOP chairman, he served as Prosecuting Attorney for Goshen County, Wyoming. From 1962 to 1964, he served as Chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party. He served as governor of the U.S. state of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975 and briefly as Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Gerald Ford before resigning for health reasons. Following his tenure as Interior Secretary, he returned to Wyoming, and co-founded the law firm of Hathaway and Kunz, where he practiced until his death. He died at his home in Cheyenne on October 4, 2005, from an undisclosed illness at the age of 81.
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