# Edwin Hicks

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'''Edwin Hicks''' (February 14, 1830 [Bristol](/source/Bristol%2C_New_York), [Ontario County, New York](/source/Ontario_County%2C_New_York) – November 30, 1902 [Canadaigua](/source/Canandaigua_(city)%2C_New_York), Ontario Co., NY) was an American lawyer and politician from [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).

==Life==
He attended the common schools and [Canandaigua Academy](/source/Canandaigua_Academy). He began to study law in 1850, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and practiced in Canandaigua.

He was District Attorney of Ontario County in 1857; and from 1864 to 1872.

He was a member of the [New York State Senate](/source/New_York_State_Senate) (26th D.) in [1878](/source/101st_New_York_State_Legislature) and [1879](/source/102nd_New_York_State_Legislature).

==Sources==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA542 ''The New York Civil List''] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 542) 
* [https://archive.org/stream/civillistandcon00unkngoog#page/n335/mode/1up ''Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York''] compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; pg. 291)
* [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101061337661;seq=88;view=1up;num=66 ''The State Government for 1879''] by [Charles G. Shanks](/source/Charles_G._Shanks) (Weed, Parsons & Co, Albany NY, 1879; pg. 64)
* [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/12/01/118487156.pdf ''DEATH LIST OF A DAY; Edwin Hicks''] in NYT on December 1, 1902

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{{succession box | before = [Stephen H. Hammond](/source/Stephen_H._Hammond) | title = [New York State Senate](/source/New_York_State_Senate) <br>26th District | years = 1878–1879 | after = [William B. Woodin](/source/William_B._Woodin)}}
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Category:1830 births
Category:1902 deaths
Category:Republican Party New York (state) state senators
Category:Politicians from Canandaigua, New York
Category:County district attorneys in New York (state)
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature

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