Joseph H. Hawkins

Joseph H. Hawkins (* in Lexington , Kentucky , †  1823 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . In 1814 and 1815 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The date of birth of Joseph Hawkins and the exact date of his death have not been recorded. After elementary school and a subsequent law degree, he began working as a lawyer. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1810 and 1813 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and temporarily its president .

After Henry Clay's resignation , Hawkins was elected in the second constituency of Kentucky as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 29, 1814. Since he no longer ran in the regular congressional elections of 1814, he was only able to end the current term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1815 . During this time the British-American War ended .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Hawkins practiced again as a lawyer. He also worked in commerce. In 1819 he moved to New Orleans, where he died in 1823.

Web links

• Joseph H. Hawkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)