Robert Hawkins (Manitoba politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Buckland St Mary, England, United Kingdom
About Robert Hawkins (Manitoba politician)
- Robert Hawkins (May 29, 1879 at Buckland St.
- Mary, Somerset, England – June 19, 1962) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 to 1949 as a Liberal-Progressive, and was Speaker of the legislature from 1937 to 1949. Hawkins was educated in Bristol, and came to Canada in 1904.
- He worked as an insurance, real estate and financial agent, serving as president of Robert Hawkins Co.
- Ltd.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1932 provincial election, defeating Conservative candidate Ernest N.
- McGirr, 266 votes in the Dauphin constituency.
- He was re-elected over McGirr by a greater margin in the 1936 election.
- On February 18, 1937, he was chosen as Speaker of the Assembly.Hawkins was re-elected by acclamation in the 1941 provincial election, and defeated a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in 1945.
- He did not seek re-election in 1949.
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