George Copeland Hawkins Jr. (December 4, 1918 – August 9, 1991), was an

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lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the

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in the 1950s. He attended the

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as an alternate delegate. He died in 1991 of kidney failure and was buried in Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden.

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