| LC control no. | n 89645323 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hawkins, Augustus F. |
| Variant(s) | Hawkins, Gus |
| Other standard no. | Q561547 |
| Located | Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Birth date | 19070831 |
| Death date | 20071110 |
| Place of birth | Shreveport, La. |
| Place of death | Bethesda, Md. |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House |
| Profession or occupation | African American legislators |
| Found in | nuc89-76122: Humphrey, H.H. The Humphrey-Hawkins bill, 1977 (hdg. on DHU rept.: Hawkins, Augustus F.; usage: Augustus F. Hawkins) NUCMC data from Texas Tech Univ., S.W. Coll. (Lubbock) for National Organization for Women. Lubbock Chapter. Records, 1967-1978 (Augustus F. Hawkins) WW in Am. pol., 1979-1980: p. 89 (Hawkins, Augustus F.; U.S. rep., Calif.; b. Shreveport, La., Aug. 31, 1907; s. Nyanza Hawkins and Hattie H. Freeman H.; m. Pegga A. Smith; legal res., Los Angeles, Calif.; mailing address, Washington, D.C.) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong., 1774-1989, 1989: p. 1155 (Hawkins, Augustus Freeman; representative from California; b. Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La., Aug. 31, 1907; U.S. representative (D), 1963-1989; resident of Los Angeles, Calif.) New York times WWW site, Nov. 15, 2007 (in obituary published Nov. 14: Augustus F. Hawkins; b. Augustus Freeman Hawkins, Aug. 31, 1907, Shreveport, La.; d. Saturday [Nov. 10, 2007], Bethesda, Md., aged 100; California's first Black representative in Congress, serving 14 terms in the House; had a hand in important civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964) English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 27, 2013 (Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins (Aug. 31, 1907--Nov. 10, 2007) was a prominent American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress) |
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