{{Short description|43rd Mayor of New York City}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Whitehead Hicks |image = Whitehead Hicks.jpg |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1728|8|24}} |birth_place = Flushing, Queens, New York |office = 43rd Mayor of New York City |term_start = 1766 |term_end = 1776 |predecessor = John Cruger Jr. |successor = David Mathews |death_date = {{Death date and age|1780|10|4|1728|8|24}} |death_place = Flushing, Queens, New York |party = |spouse = |children = |website = }} '''Whitehead Hicks''' (August 24, 1728 – October 4, 1780) was the 43rd Mayor of New York City from 1766 to 1776.
==Family and early life== 175px|thumb|left|Coat of Arms of Whitehead Hicks Hicks came from a Quaker family which settled and lent its name to Hicksville, New York. Hicks studied law under William Smith and was admitted to practice in 1750.<ref name="wilson">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=James Grant |title=The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1892 |date=1892 |publisher=New York History Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ZCIWAAAAYAAJ/page/n440 401] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ZCIWAAAAYAAJ |access-date=23 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The son of Judge Thomas Hicks, he was a lawyer and served on the New York Supreme Court of Judicature.<ref>Whitehead Hicks-Historical Society of the New York Courts, retrieved on January 24, 2017.</ref> He married Charlotte Brevoort, the daughter of John and Louisa (Kockerman) Brevoort.
==Loyalism== Hicks was a Loyalist and was the first to appear in front of a committee of nine colonials formed by the New York Provincial Congress in 1776 to investigate "domestic enemies" "disaffected to the American cause". He met with this committee on June 15, 1776, indicating his loyalty to George III. He was subsequently put on parole.<ref>Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 1902, pages 78-79</ref> A street in the Bronx, NY is named in his honor (Hicks Street)<ref>{{cite book |last=McNamara |first=John |author-link= |date=1991 |title=''History in Asphalt'' |url= |location=Harrison, NY |publisher=Harbor Hill Books |page=129 |isbn=0-941980-15-4}}</ref>
After resigning from the mayoralty, he served as a judge before eventually retiring to his farm on Long Island. He died there at the age of 52 years in 1780.<ref name="wilson" /> He was buried in Queens.
==Mayor from Queens== He was the first mayor to be born in what is now modern-day Queens.
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