Frederick Charles Hicks (originally Frederick Hicks Cocks; March 6, 1872 - December 14, 1925) was an American banker and politician who served as a

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from 1916 to 1923.

Biography

He was born in

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, on March 6, 1872. He attended the public schools,

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, and

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. He engaged in the banking business. Frederick C. Hicks' brother, William Willets Cocks, was also a U.S. Representative from New York. In 1901, he published ''Lectures on the Theory of Economics''.

Congress

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, holding office from January 4, 1916, to March 3, 1923. His 1914 election was one of the closest in history. He was originally declared the winner by 15 votes, but subsequent lawsuits narrowed the lead to 4 votes and then 10. The lawsuits took more than a year and Hicks wasn't certified the winner until December 21. He was sworn in when Congress reconvened in January 1916, making this one of the longest elections in the history of the House. Though his opponent Lathrop Brown contested the argument, arguing that some precinct captains were drunk and careless, he lost and Hicks retained his seat. Rep. Hicks was a supporter of women's suffrage. He had been at the bedside of his dying wife prior to the final vote on the Nineteenth Amendment in 1918, but left at her urging to take part in the vote. He provided the final, crucial vote, and then returned home for her funeral.Gail Collins, New York Times
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Later career

Hicks was eastern director of the

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campaign in 1924, and was appointed by President

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as a member of the commission to represent the United States at the celebration of the Centennial of the Battle of Aracucho, held at

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, during December 1924. He was appointed Alien Property Custodian on April 10, 1925, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1925. Interment was in Quaker Cemetery, Westbury,

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Death

He died on December 14, 1925.

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