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Dexter Arnold Hawkins was born on June 24, 1825, in Canton, Maine, United States, the son of the Reverend Henry and Abigail (Fuller) Hawkins. He was a descendant of Sir John Hawkins. One grandfather had served in the Continental Army, the other had been under John Paul Jones. His father had been sent as a missionary Irom Providence, Rhod Island, to the province of Maine.
Dexter's education in the ordinary district school was supplemented by the teaching of his father, who was an active evangelist in the causes of education, temperance, and abolition. Before entering Bowdoin College in 1844, Hawkins had gained secondary education in the academy at Bridgton. Later he studied at the Harvard Law School and spent two years in Europe, which he divided between courses at L’École des Droits in Paris and a first-hand study of the judicial and educational systems of the various countries.
In the year of his graduation from college in 1848, Dexter Hawkins was appointed by the state board of education as lecturer on public instruction before teachers’ institutes - in which capacity during the next three years he gave a course of forty-five lectures attended by three thousand teachers. At the end of that time he was offered the secretaryship of the state board of education; but in spite of his great interest in educational problems the attraction of the law proved greater. Accordingly he entered an office in Portland, Maine. He opened his law office in New York City, January 2, 1854. By the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, he had built up an influential practice. An accident, received in childhood, prevented his active participation in the army, but otherwise he exerted his influence to the utmost in the cause which he so fervidly approved.
In 1867 Hawkins devoted his energies once more to the cause of education and was instrumental in the establishment of the Department of Education. Three years later - much to the disappointment of Hawkins, who wished the national head of education to be a powerful administrator - this department was relegated to the rank of a bureau in the Department of the Interior. To him education presented the truest panacea for social evils since it was the surest preventive of Pauperism.
In the case of the Southern states, whose educational backwardness he deplored, he advocated corrective interference by the national government. He was equally outspoken in his denunciation of political corruption and extravagance in New York City. In contrast to the corrupted leaders of municipal politics and parochial schools, the Anglo-Saxon American was praised by Hawkins as being and bidding “fair to be for centuries to come, the best composite, harmonious development, the highest perfection of humanity. ” Hawkins died suddenly at Groton, Connecticut.
Dexter Hawkins is famous for drewing up provisions which were passed into law by New York State in 1874 under the title, “Act to Secure to Children the Benefits of Elementary Education. ” Many states followed the New York precedent. The statistics contained in his various pamphlets were also instrumental in the overthrow of the Tammany ring and in the correction of other less glaring irregularities.
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Quotations: “A child trained in the parochial school . .. is more than three and a quarter times as likely to get into jail as the child trained in the free public school. ”
Hawkins married, April 12, 1859, Sophia T. Meeks.
