Andrew J. Hickey

Andrew James Hickey ( born August 27, 1872 in Albion, Orleans County, New York; † August 20, 1942 in Buffalo, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Hickey attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from Buffalo Law School and his admission to the bar he began in 1897 in La Porte (Indiana) to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Hickey was in the 13th electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Henry A. Barnhart on March 4, 1919. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 six legislative periods. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. Since the end of 1929 the work of the Congress was determined by the events of the Great Depression.

In the elections of 1930, Andrew Hickey lost to Democrat Samuel B. Pettengill. 1932, the 13th Congressional District of Indiana was dissolved. In the years 1934 and 1936, Hickey competed unsuccessfully in other districts of his state to his return to the U.S. House of Representatives. After his time in Congress, he practiced as a lawyer again. Andrew Hickey died on 20 August 1942 during a road trip in Buffalo; He was buried in La Porte.