{{short description|Businessman and 8th Prime Minister of Newfoundland (1924-1924)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{for-multi|the boat designer and builder|W. Albert Hickman|the pilot|Albert Hickman (pilot)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Albert Hickman | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | order = 8th | office = Prime Minister of Newfoundland | term_start = May 10, 1924 | term_end = June 9, 1924 | monarch = George V | governor = William Allardyce | predecessor = William Warren | successor = Walter Stanley Monroe {{Collapsed infobox section begin | cont = yes | Legislative offices | titlestyle = border:1px dashed lightgrey; }} {{infobox officeholder | embed = yes | constituency_AM1 = Harbour Grace | alongside1 = John R. Bennett and Charles Russell | assembly1 = Newfoundland House of | majority1 = | term_start1 = {{start date|1924|06|02}} | term_end1 = {{end date|1928|10|29}} | predecessor1 = Archibald Piccott<br>Ernest Simmons<br>Augustus Calpin | successor1 = Frank C. Archibald | constituency_AM2 = Bay de Verde | alongside2 = John Crosbie | assembly2 = Newfoundland House of | term_start2 = {{start date|1913|10|30}} | term_end2 = {{end date|1919|11|03}} | predecessor2 = Jesse Whiteway | successor2 = Frederick LeGrow<br>William H. Cave {{Collapsed infobox section end}} }} | image = Albert Edgar Hickman.png | caption = | birth_name = Albert Edgar Hickman | birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|08|02}} | birth_place = Grand Bank, Newfoundland Colony | death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|02|09|1875|08|02|mf=yes}} | death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland | resting_place = General Protestant Cemetery, St. John's, Newfoundland | party = People's (1913–1919)<br>Liberal-Labour-Progressive (1923)<br>Liberal-Progressive (1924–1928) | spouse = {{Marriage|Mary Louise Laurie|December 24, 1906}} | profession = Businessman | education = Mount Allison University | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Albert Edgar Hickman''' (August 2, 1875 – February 9, 1943) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of Newfoundland.
==Biography== Albert Hickman was born in Grand Bank on August 2, 1875. He married Mary Louise Laurie on December 24, 1906, and they had three children.<ref name="Who's Who">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTkzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1493 |title=Who's Who in Canada, Volume 16 |editor1-first=Charles Whately |editor1-last=Parker |editor2-first=Barnet M. |editor2-last=Greene |publisher=International Press |page=1493 |year=1922 |access-date=2020-07-19 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
A politician and businessman, he served as Prime Minister of Newfoundland for 33 days in 1924 as leader of a caretaker administration after the successive collapses of the Liberal Reform Party governments of Prime Ministers Sir Richard Squires and William Warren. The governor asked Hickman to form an administration to govern the province when the government of William Warren was defeated in a Motion of No Confidence. Hickman invited members of various former members of the Liberal Reform Party as well as members of other parties into his government which he called the Liberal-Progressive Party. His new party was defeated in the 9 June 1924 election by former supporters of Warren who joined with the conservative opposition to form the Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party. Hickman served as Leader of the Opposition until he retired from politics in 1928, by which time his party had degenerated and a new Liberal Party had emerged led by Squires.
Albert Hickman died at his home in St. John's on February 9, 1943.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55693034/obituary-for-a-e-hickman-aged-67/ |title=A. E. Hickman Dies |newspaper=The Province |location=St. John's, Newfoundland |agency=CP |page=9 |date=February 10, 1943 |access-date=July 19, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1919-28.htm Newfoundland in the 1920s] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423024620/http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1919-28.htm |date=April 23, 2023 }}
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