# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-sydney-hawkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:13:41.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-sydney-hawkins"
name: "George Sydney Hawkins"
slug: "george-sydney-hawkins"
description: "George Sydney Hawkins was a U.S. representative from Florida. Born in Kingston, Ulster County, New York; attended the common schools and was graduated from Columbia University, New York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Florida and settled in Pensacola, Florida; served as captain in the Indian war of 1837; member of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida; appointed district attorney in 1841; appointed United States district attorney for the Apalachicola district in Florida in 1842; associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court 1846–1850; elected judge of the circuit court in January 1851; member of the Florida House of Representatives; served in the Florida State Senate; collector of customs for the port of Apalachicola; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; judge of the district court under the Confederate Government 1862–1865; commissioned by the legislation of 1877 to prepare a digest of the State laws of Florida."
tagline: "American judge and politician (1808–1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Sydney_Hawkins-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1808"
deathDate: "1878-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.93
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.602376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جورج سيدني هوكينز"
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    title: "جورج سیدنی هاوکینز"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sydney_Hawkins"
    title: "George Sydney Hawkins"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sydney_Hawkins"
    title: "George Sydney Hawkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q614613"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump