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as a Unionist a representative in the 38th con- gress lyG^-ti."). l)ut was not allowed to take his seat, owiuj; to irregularities in the elei-tion. He was U.S. district attorney of the We-stern district of Tennessee, 1864-6"), and judge of the supreme court of Tennessee, 180.5-68, and 1869-70. He was appointed U.S. consul-general at Havana in 1868. He was elected on the Republican ticket gov- ernor of Tennessee in 1880, serving 1881-83, and was defeated for a .second term in 1882. At the expiration of his gubernatorial term he retired to jirivate life, and resumed the practice of his i)ro- fes-;it)n at Huntingdon. Tonn.

HAWKINS, Benjamin, senator, was born in Bute (Warren) coimty, X.C, Aug. 15, 1754; son of Col. Philemon and Delia Hawkins. His father was a Revolutionary soldier, a signer of the state constitution, and a member of the convention that ratified the Federal constitution. Benjamin was educated at the College of New Jer.sey, where he had obtained a thorough knowledge of the French language. When the college doors closed lie was in his senior year and was invited by General Washington to join his staff where he served as interpreter between the American and Frencli general officers. He took an active part in all the battles in which W'ashington com- manded, including the battle of Monmouth ( 1779), and at the close of the war was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1783. He represented his district in the North Carolina
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several terms; was commer- cial agent for his state, 1780; a delegate to -%: the Continental ^'^-~'X;^''Z^^^/-'. ''^^^^,~ congress, 1781- 84 and 1786- oo«cRAA^EA*TMoust.^,wY<.«. 87; a U.S. sen-

ator in the 1st, 2d and 3d congresses, 1789-95; and was appointed by President Washington agent of the three great Indian tribes and other Indians south of the Ohio river. He established his head- quarters at Fort Hawkins, Creek Nation (after- ward Hawkinsville, Ga.), December, 1796, and held the otlSce under the successive administra- tions, to each of which he tendered his resigna- tion, which was not accepted. He kept the Indians at p<?ace up to the time of his death. He was married to Lavina Downs of Georgia, and left a property valued at §160,000. He was a trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1789- 98. He died at Fort Hawkins, Ga., June 6, 1816. HAWKINS, Dexter Arnoll, publicist, was born in Canton, Elaine. Juno 24, 1825; son of the Rev. Henrj-and (Fuller) Hawkins, and grand- son of Dexter Hawkins, a soldier in the Ameri-

can Revolution, and of John Fuller, a member of the crew of tiie B<>n llummv Uirhdrd under John Paul Jones, Sept. 23, 1779. He was graduated at Bowdoin, A.B., 1848, A.M., 1851. He was teacher of mathematics at the academies at Bethel and Bridgetou, and lecturer before teachers' insti- tutes in Maine, 1848-52; principal of Topsham academy, 1849-50; studied law in the office of W'illiam Pitt Fessenden, Portland, Maine; at Harvard and at the Ecole des droits. Paris, France, and travelled in Europe under commis- sion from the governor of Maine, to examine and report on the educational methods of the old world. He practised law in New York city, 1854- 86, where he spoke and wrote in the interest of free education, protection, hard money and bi- metallism. In 1875 he delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., on " The Educational Problem in the Cot- ton States." He was the prime mover in the formation of the national bureau of education. He published reports on Sectarian Appropriations of Public Moneiis and Property (1869); Dnty of the. State to Protect the Free Common Schools of Organic Law (1871); Extravagance of the Tammany Ping (1871); Donations of Public Property to Private Corporations and the Plegal Exemption of the same from Taxation (1873); and books: Traditions tf Overlook Mountain (1873); The Poman Catholic Church in New York City and the Public Land and Public Money (1880); Free- Trade and Protection (1883); The Redemption of the Trade Dollar (1886); and The Silver Problem delivered as an address before the committee on coinage in the U.S. house of representatives (1886). He died at Groton, Conn., July 24. 1886.

HAWKINS, Hamilton Smith, soldier, was born in Fort:\Iultrie, S.C, Nov. 13, 1834; son of Maj. Hamilton Smith and Ann Alicia (Chiflfelle) Hawkins; grandson of William and Mary Hamilton (Smith) Hawkins of Balti- more, Md., and of Thomas Philotheus and Henrietta (Lad- .son) Cliffelle of Charleston, S.C, and a descendant of Ad- mirals Sir John and Sir Richard Hawkins of England, of Col. Charles Hawkins, killed at the storm- ing of Gibraltar, and of Landgrave Smith

of South Carolina. His father, I\Iaj. Hamilton Smith Hawkins, died of yellow fever in the war with Mexico, 1847. The son was appointed

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