Monroe E. Hawkins

Monroe E. Hawkins was a state legislator in Arkansas. He attended the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention ^[1] and served in the Arkansas House of Representatives. ^[2] A Republican, he represented Lafayette County, Arkansas. He served in the House from 1868 to 1869 and 1873 to 1874. ^[3]

He was born in North Carolina where he was enslaved from birth. ^[4]

A historical marker was erected in Stamps, Arkansas to commemorate him and two other African Americans who represented Lafayette County, Marshall M. Murray and Conway Barbour. ^[5]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900

References

1. Convention, 1868, Arkansas Constitutional (November 29, 1868). "Debates and Proceedings of the Convention which Assembled at Little Rock, January 7th, 1868 ...: To Form a Constitution for the State of Arkansas". J. G. Price, printer to the convention – via Google Books.
2. Debates and Proceedings of the Convention which Assembled at Little Rock, January 7th, 1868 ...: To Form a Constitution for the State of Arkansas. J. G. Price, printer to the convention. 1868.
3. "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
4. Branam, Christopher Warren (May 2011). The Africans Have Taken Arkansas: Political Activities of African-American Members of the Arkansas Legislature, 1868-73 (Thesis). University of Arkansas.
5. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=121211