Hawkins Wesley Carter

Hawkins Wesley Carter (1842–1927) was a farmer and state legislator in North Carolina.[1] He lived in Warrenton, North Carolina and was African American.[2]

Hawkins Wesley Carter
North Carolina House of Representatives
In office
1874–1880
North Carolina Senate
In office
1881–1883
Personal details
Born1842
Died1927(1927-00-00) (aged 84–85)
Political partyRepublican

Biography

Carter was born 1842 to Plummer Carter & 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

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "Warren County Wills - 4". www.ncgenweb.us. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  4. "Carter, Hawkins W. (Warren County)". digital.ncdcr.gov.
  5. "The North Carolina Historical Review". North Carolina Historical Commission. November 19, 2009 – via Google Books.
  6. Simmons-Henry, Linda (November 19, 1990). The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina. North Carolina African American Heritage Foundation. ISBN 9780912081120 – via Google Books.
  7. "Republican Convention". Warrenton Gazette. 16 June 1882. p. 2. Retrieved 31 January 2023.open access
  8. "Obituary for Pattie II Cotter". The Durham Sun. 23 October 1950. p. 3. Retrieved 31 January 2023.open access
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