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Oil on canvas, Joseph Maniscalco, 1990, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
HAWKINS, Augustus Freeman (Gus), a Representative from California; born in Shreveport, Caddo Parish,
La., August 31, 1907; in 1918, moved to Los Angeles, Calif., with his parents;
attended local public schools; graduated from Jefferson High School in 1926,
from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1931, and from the
University of Southern California in 1932; engaged in the real estate business
in 1941; member of the State assembly, 1935-1962; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-eighth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1963-January 3, 1991); chairman, Committee on House Administration
(Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses), Committee on Education and Labor
(Ninety-eighth through One Hundred First Congresses), Joint Committee on
Printing (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-eighth Congresses), Joint Committee on the
Library (Ninety-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1990
to the One Hundred Second Congress; died on November 10, 2007, in Bethesda, Md.
BibliographyAugustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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