Frederick C. Hicks

Frederick C. Hicks

Frederick Cocks Hicks II , originally Frederick Hicks Cocks , (born March 6, 1872 in Westbury , New York , † December 14, 1925 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1923 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frederick Cocks Hicks was born in Westbury about seven years after the end of the Civil War . He attended public schools, the Swarthmore College ( Pennsylvania ) and Harvard University ( Massachusetts ). Then he went to banking. He ran unsuccessfully in 1912 a congress seat in the US House of Representatives in Washington DC The following midterm elections of 1914 he became a Republican in the first constituency elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeds on March 4, 1915 Lathrop Brown took . He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he refused to run again in 1922 , he left the Congress after March 3, 1923 . President Harding then offered him a diplomatic position in Uruguay , but Hicks turned it down. The following year he was the eastern leader of the Republican National Committee campaign. He was then President Coolidge appointed to the Commission, which the United States at the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Aracucho in Lima ( Peru represented) while from the December 1924th On April 10, 1925, he was then appointed Alien Property Custodian , a position he held until his death on December 14, 1925. He was buried in Quaker Cemetery in Westbury. His brother was Congressman William W. Cocks .

Web links

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• Frederick C. Hicks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frederick C. Hicks in the database of Find a Grave (English)