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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeIsaac Roberts HAWKINS
(1818-1880)
HAWKINS, Isaac Roberts, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Columbia, Maury County,
Tenn., May 16, 1818; moved with his parents to Carroll County in
1828; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural
pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and
commenced practice in Huntingdon, Carroll County, Tenn.; served as
a lieutenant in the Mexican War; resumed the practice of law;
delegate from Tennessee to the peace conference held in Washington,
D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending
war; elected to the convention for the consideration of Federal
relations; judge of the circuit court in 1862; entered the Union
Army as lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Regiment, Tennessee
Volunteer Cavalry, in 1862; captured with his regiment at Union
City, Tenn., in 1864 and imprisoned; exchanged in August 1864 and
resumed active service, being in command of the Cavalry force in
western Kentucky until the close of the Civil War; commissioned by
Governor Brownlow as one of the chancellors of Tennessee in July
1865 but declined to qualify; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1868; upon the readmission of Tennessee to
representation was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-ninth
Congress; reelected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first
Congresses and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1871;
chairman, Committee on Mileage (Forty-first Congress); died in
Huntingdon, Tenn., August 12, 1880; interment in the Hawkins family
burial ground near Huntingdon, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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