HAWKINS, GEORGE SYDNEY, a Representative from Florida; born in Kingston, Ulster County,
N.Y., in 1808; attended the common schools and was graduated from Columbia
University, New York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced;
moved to Florida and settled in Pensacola; served as captain in the Indian war
of 1837; member of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida;
appointed district attorney in 1841; appointed United States district attorney
for the Apalachicola district in Florida in 1842; associate justice of the
State supreme court 1846-1850; elected judge of the circuit court in January
1851; member of the State house of representatives; served in the State senate;
collector of customs for the port of Apalachicola; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to
January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; judge of the district court under the
Confederate Government 1862-1865; commissioned by the legislation of 1877 to
prepare a digest of the State laws of Florida; died in Marianna, Fla., March
15, 1878; interment in St. Luke's Episcopal Cemetery.
