Notes:Alvin Hawkins (1821-1905) married Julia Ott of Murfreesboro in 1847. He served in the TN House of Representatives in 1853. He supported John Bell in the Presidential election of 1860. He worked for Military Governor Andrew Johnson during the Civil War gathering information for plans to reconstruct the civil governments of TN after the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln appointed Hawkins U.S. District Attorney for West TN and he was appointed to the TN Supreme Court in 1865. He served as Consul-General in Cuba in 1869. Elected again to the State Supreme Court, he was denied this position because of the passage of the State Constitution and the end of the Reconstruction government. He was elected Governor of TN in 1880, the first Republican Governor since the end of Reconstruction. He was defeated in 1882 in his bid for another term as Governor. He returned to his home in Huntingdon TN to practice law and was active in the Methodist Church.
