1920 - 30s Frederick C. Hicks Family Photo Album - U. S. House Of Rep. York
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Reference Number: Avaluer:4368534 |
This very interesting and detailed photo album is of him and his family. It contains negatives and newspaper clippings as well as most pictures are documented by year and who is in them, as well as where it is taken. Many are of family vacations in Italy, Hawaii and other points of interest.A... section of it is at the Flag Raising ceremonies in Port Washington, NY "Shorewood". Also includes a typed description of the flag-raising ceremony at Sands Point, Long Island.
He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1923. Hicks was eastern director of the Republican National Committee campaign in 1924, and was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge as a member of the commission to represent the United States at the celebration of the Centennial of the Battle of Aracucho, held at Lima, Peru, during December 1924.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.