# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000893847
**File Stem:** 0000893847-25-000028
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 2331
**Document Hash:** 924265d113b2a7224e271bba9217d44a
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000893847-25-000028.hdr.sgml**: 20250801

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000893847-25-000028

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250630

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** HAWTHORN BANCSHARES, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000893847
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKS [6021]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 431626350
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MO
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 132 EAST HIGH STREET
- **CITY:** JEFFERSON CITY
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 65101
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (573)761-6100

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** P. O. BOX 688
- **CITY:** JEFFERSON CITY
- **STATE:** MO
- **ZIP:** 65102

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANCSHARES INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19940323

**HAWTHORN BANCSHARES, INC.**

**132 East High Street, Box 688**

**Jefferson City, Missouri 65102**

June 30, 2025

<u>Via EDGAR</u>

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn: Madeleine Joy Mateo

 Re: Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc.Registration Statement on Form S-3File No. 333-288274

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc., a Missouri corporation (the "Company"), hereby respectfully requests that the effective date of the above referenced Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-288274) be accelerated by the Securities and Exchange Commission to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on July 2, 2025, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

The Company respectfully requests that it be notified when this request for acceleration has been granted by a telephone call or email to Scott Gootee of Stinson LLP at (816) 691-3263 or scott.gootee@stinson.com and that such effectiveness also be confirmed in writing.

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| HAWTHORN BANCSHARES, INC.<br>By: <u>/s/ Chris E. Hafner&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</u><br>Name: Chris E. Hafner<br>Title: Chief Financial Officer |

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cc:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scott Gootee, Stinson LLP

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