Charles A. Hawkins

Charles A. Hawkins

Member

Photo credit:

McAtee, William, comp. Souvenir: Portraits and Biographies of the Members of the Legislature of Pennsylvania and Heads of Departments, Session of 1895. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Roshon Portrait Company, 1895.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1895-1896 Representative Democrat
Counties York

Biography

01/07/1859 - 05/14/1935


HAWKINS, Charles Augustine, a Representative from York County; born, January 7, 1859 in Fawn Grove, York County, Pa.; attended, Bethel Academy, Md.; attended, York County Academy (now York College); A.B., Swarthmore College, 1878; employed, National Publishing Company, Philadelphia; employed, Jones Brothers and Company, publishers, Cincinnati; principal, Fawn Grove Academy (1883-1884); lawyer (1885-1935); elected, solicitor, York (1887-1892); attorney, school board, York; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1894; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1896); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1914); died, May 14, 1935 in Delta, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fawn Grove Friends Cemetery, Fawn Grove, York County, Pennsylvania.  


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