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Hawkins, Augustus

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Hawkins, Augustus (Freeman) (1907–2007)

US politician. He served as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly (1935–62) before going to the US House of Representatives (1963–89). Known for his social welfare and civil rights legislation, he chaired the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Education and Labor during the Reagan Administration.

Hawkins was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Moving to Los Angeles, California, as a boy, he graduated from the University of California and established a real-estate business in 1941.



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