George C. Hawkins

{{Short description|American lawyer and politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

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|name= George C. Hawkins

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|state_senate=Alabama

|district=6th

|term_start=1963

|term_end=1967

|office2=Member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Etowah County

|term_start2=1951

|term_end2=1959

|preceded=

|succeeded=

|birth_date={{birth date|1918|12|4}}

|birth_place=Elora, Tennessee, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1991|8|9|1918|12|4}}

|death_place=

|spouse={{marriage|Jane Elizabeth Smith|1942}} Jean Temple (m.1981-1991)

|children=5

|residence=Gadsden, Alabama

|party=Democrat

|occupation=Lawyer

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George Copeland Hawkins Jr. (December 4, 1918 – August 9, 1991), was an Alabama lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the Alabama House of Representatives in the 1950s.

He attended the 1948 Democratic National Convention as an alternate delegate.{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-2240|title=1948 Democratic National Convention|publisher=historycentral.com|access-date=April 30, 2014}}

He died in 1991 of kidney failure and was buried in Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden.

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