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Weekly 150: Alvin Hawkins

Carroll County’s First State Governor

By Jason Martin
jmartin@mckenziebanner.com
Posted 11/23/21

Two Tennessee governors have called Carroll County home. Both men, Alvin Hawkins and Gordon Browning were lawyers and politicians whose careers took hold in Huntingdon. This week I would like to share the story of Alvin Hawkins, most of which came from the History of Carroll County publication and William Robertson Garrett and Albert Virgil Goodpasture’s History of Tennessee.

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