Edwin Hicks (February 14, 1830

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– November 30, 1902 Canadaigua, Ontario Co., NY) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He attended the common schools and

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. 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

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(26th D.) in

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and

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Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 542)
''Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York''
compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; pg. 291)
''The State Government for 1879''
by

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(Weed, Parsons & Co, Albany NY, 1879; pg. 64)
''DEATH LIST OF A DAY; Edwin Hicks''
in NYT on December 1, 1902 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hicks, Edwin 1830 births 1902 deaths Republican Party New York (state) state senators Politicians from Canandaigua, New York County district attorneys in New York (state) 19th-century American politicians