Hawkins Wesley Carter (c. 1842–1927) was a farmer and state legislator in North Carolina.[1] He lived in Warrenton, North Carolina and was African American.[2] He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1874-1880 and in the North Carolina Senate in 1881 and 1883.
Hawkins Wesley Carter | |
|---|---|
| North Carolina House of Representatives | |
| In office 1874–1880 | |
| North Carolina Senate | |
| In office 1881–1883 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1842 |
| Died | 1927 (aged 84–85) |
| Political party | Republican |
Biography
editCarter was born in about 1842 to Plummer Carter Hawkins and his wife Amy Hawkins.[3] Having relatively prosperous parents he was educated at home with privately hired teachers.[2]
He served in the confederate army in the American Civil War in the 46th regiment of C Company.[4]
Carter was elected to serve three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1874 to 1880 including as a member of the House Finance Committee.[5] He was then elected to serve in the North Carolina Senate for two terms from 1881 to 1883 representing Warren County.[5][6] While in the senate he served on Agriculture, Mechanics and Mining Committee and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum Committee.[2]
In 1882 Carter was a delegate to the Republican Congressional Convention in Warren County.[7]
His daughter Pattie Hawkins Carter served as superintendent of the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing[1] and died in 1950.[8]
An application for a soldiers pension in 1927 describes his war duties as constructing breast works, cooking and fighting along-side white soldiers.[4] He stated that he was 87 and can no longer work,[4] however in 1883 he was listed as being aged 40 in the senate records.[2] He had sold his farmland in Warren County and retired at the point.[2]
His will is on record and shows him dying in 1927 and that he had been married to Nannie Boyd (1853-1928) and they had a son Hawkins W. Carter Jr.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Hill-Saya, Blake (March 2, 2020). Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall Street. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469655864 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e Justesen, Benjamin R. (2009). ""The Class of '83": Black Watershed in the North Carolina General Assembly". The North Carolina Historical Review. 86 (3): 295–305, 308. JSTOR 23523861 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b "Warren County Wills - 4". www.ncgenweb.us. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Carter, Hawkins W. (Warren County)". digital.ncdcr.gov.
- ^ a b "The North Carolina Historical Review". North Carolina Historical Commission. November 19, 2009 – via Google Books.
- ^ Simmons-Henry, Linda (November 19, 1990). The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina. North Carolina African American Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9780912081120 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Republican Convention". Warrenton Gazette. 16 June 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Obituary for Pattie II Cotter". The Durham Sun. 23 October 1950. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
