James Hawkes (congressman)

Hawkes was born December 13, 1776 in Petersham, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He moved with his parents to Richfield, New York in 1789. He attended the common schools, taught school in Richfield and later in Burlington. Hawkes returned to Richfield, and was Sheriff of Otsego County from 1815 to 1819. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1820.

Hawkes was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823.

He died October 2, 1865 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York and was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.

• United States Congress. "James Hawkes (id: H000366)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71, 196, 280 and 404; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [gives "Hawks" as surname except at Congress list]