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Associated PressFormer Congressman Hawkins Dies at 100The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 5:55 AM
LOS ANGELES -- Augustus Hawkins, who was California's
first black congressman and helped form the Congressional
Black Caucus, has died. He was 100.
Hawkins died Saturday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda,
Md., of symptoms related to old age, his niece, Susan
Jefferson, said Monday.
Hawkins, a Democrat, represented South Los Angeles for
more than half a century, first starting off in the state
Legislature in 1935 and then getting elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1962.
Black politicians called Hawkins an inspiration and mentor.
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