Roy B. Hawkins

Roy Baker Hawkins (6 May 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an American lawyer and politician from Iowa.

In 1924, Hawkins was elected to the first of two terms as Decatur County attorney, stepping down in 1929 to focus on his private legal practice in Leon, from which he retired in 1968.

Thereafter, he served one four-year term in the Iowa Senate for District 5, followed by another two-year term as state representative for House District 6 between 12 January 1953 and 9 January 1955.

Following the deaths of Keister and their son Roger in 1935, Hawkins married Gallatin, Missouri, native Georgia Doolin Netherton in 1939.

Roy Hawkins died on 11 February 1969, at the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.