Q:Facts: - imagesize: 200px - death place: marianna , florida - preceded: augustus maxwell - party: democratic - death date: march 15 , 1878 1808 - district: at-large - term end: january 21 , 1861 - succeeded: charles m. hamilton - term start: march 4 , 1857 - state: florida - name: george sydney hawkins - birth date: 1808 - birth place: kingston , new york - alma mater: columbia university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george sydney hawkins .
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george sydney hawkins -lrb- 1808march 15 , 1878 -rrb- was a us representative from florida .born in kingston , ulster county , new york ; attended the common schools and was graduated from columbia university , new york city ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar and practiced ; moved to florida and settled in pensacola , florida ; served as captain in the indian war of 1837 ; member of the legislative council of the territory of florida ; appointed district attorney in 1841 ; appointed united states district attorney for the apalachicola district in florida in 1842 ; associate justice of the florida supreme court 1846-1850 ; elected judge of the circuit court in january 1851 ; member of the florida house of representatives ; served in the florida state senate ; collector of customs for the port of apalachicola ; elected as a democrat to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses and served from march 4 , 1857 , to january 21 , 1861 , when he withdrew ; judge of the district court under the confederate government 1862-1865 ; commissioned by the legislation of 1877 to prepare a digest of the state laws of florida ; died in marianna , florida ; interment in st. luke 's episcopal cemetery .