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Paula Hawkins (politician) - Wikipedia
Paula Hawkins (née Fickes; January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician from Florida. She was the first woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, and as of 2025 the only one to be elected to the Senate from Florida.
Paula Fickes Hawkins (1927-2009) - Find a Grave Memorial
Dec 3, 2009 · Hawkins ran for the United States Senate in 1980 describing herself as "feminine, not feminist", and became the first woman elected to a full term in the Senate without following a husband or father into politics, and the first to take her husband to Washington.
Paula Fickes Hawkins - Florida Women's Hall of Fame
The ‘Maitland Housewife’-a label she proudly wore as a representative of the average citizen-Senator Paula Hawkins was elected to the Florida Public Service Commission in 1972. In 1980, Hawkins became the first Florida female elected to the U. S. Senate.
Paula Hawkins, 82, Florida Ex-Senator, Dies - The New York Times
Dec 5, 2009 · Paula Fickes was born in Salt Lake City and attended Utah State University. In 1955, Mrs. Hawkins, a former model, and her husband, Gene Hawkins, an electrical engineer and businessman,...
PAULA HAWKINS Obituary (2009) - Orlando, FL - Orlando Sentinel - Legacy.com
Dec 6, 2009 · HAWKINS,UNITED STATES SENATOR PAULA, 82, of Winter Park, Florida passed away Friday, December 4, 2009. Senator Hawkins was born January 24, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Paul Burt...
Hawkins, Paula Fickes (1927—) - Encyclopedia.com
The daughter of a navy chief warrant officer, Paula Fickes Hawkins was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1927 and spent her early years living in a variety of locales dictated by her father's postings. She graduated from high school in Logan, Utah, then attended Utah State University, where she later took a job as a secretary.
Paula Hawkins dies at 82; Senator backed family ... - Los Angeles Times
Dec 7, 2009 · As a U.S. senator in the 1980s, Hawkins helped pass the Missing Children Act and revealed at a Congressional hearing that she had been molested as a child. Paula Hawkins, who in 1980 became...
Paula Hawkins (Fickes) (1927 - 2009) - Genealogy - Geni.com
Sep 18, 2021 · Paula Hawkins (January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician from Florida. To date, she is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. She was the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without a family connection.
Paula Hawkins (politician) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...
Paula Hawkins (née Fickes; January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician. She is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American South.
Paula Fickes Hawkins (1927-2009) – Memorial Find a Grave
U.S. Senator. A Republican elected in the Reagan landslide of 1980, she represented Florida for one term. Raised in Salt Lake City, she attended Utah State University, and worked as a model, prior to her 1955 marriage to engineer Gene Hawkins. Relocating to Florida, she was elected to the state Public Service...
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