Wilson Hicks (politician)

Wilson Hicks was a state legislator in Mississippi.

[2] He was a Republican and was of the last generation of African-Americans to be elected to state office in Mississippi prior to what was then called "the end to Republican reconstruction" in Mississippi.

[2] His 6 year-old son reportedly shot himself while handling a pistol.

[5] In 1896 he was chosen to serve as a commissioner for the "Negro Department" of the Tennessee Centennial.

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