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Marshall Hicks Full Name: Edwin Marshall Hicks Date of birth: August 26, 1865 Date of death: July 18, 1930 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 24 Jan 13, 1903 - Mar 26, 1906 28th (3) (4)   29th (1) (2)   Democrat San Antonio / Bexar   Bandera, Bexar, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr (1) Hicks did not attend 2nd C.S. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (2) 29th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/10/1905, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. (3) 28th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/28/1903, pp. 107-108. Drew 4-year term. Senate Journal. (4) 28th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/13/1903, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Portrait and biographical sketch, Edwin Marshall Hicks, pp. 549-550. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. "Marshall Hicks, Former Mayor, Lawyer, Dead," Saturday morning 7/19/1930, p. 1. Died late Friday afternoon at his home (7/18/1930). San Antonio Express. "Hicks Funeral to Be Held Sunday: Former Mayor of S.A. Is Taken by Death after Long Illness," 7/19/1930, p. 9. San Antonio Light. Biographical sketch, Marshall Hicks, Volume IV, p. 17. Born 8/26/1865 in Rusk, Cherokee County. Texas Under Many Flags, 1930. Other Resources Elected officials of San Antonio - Marshall Hicks, Alderman, Ward 4, 2/8/1897-2/13/1899; Mayor, 2/13/1899-2/9/1903. City of San Antonio, Texas. Mentioned in A law for the lion: a tale of crime and injustice in the borderlands, by Beatriz Eugenia De La Garza, University of Texas Press, 2003, pp. 27-28. Google Books. Mentioned in Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928, 1984. Portrait, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928, 1984. Hicks, Marshall (b. 1865) - of San Antonio, member of Texas state senate 24th District, 1903-04. Burial location unknown. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries. "Tribute Paid Judge M'Cord: Marshall Hicks Says Deceased Was One of Finest of Texans," 5/2/1922, p. 9. McCord "had a long connection and an important one with Democratic politics of Texas." San Antonio Express. Account of President William McKinley's visit to San Antonio while Marshall Hicks was Mayor, pp. 262-264. Year Book for Texas, 1901, 1902. Photographs Photograph. Marshall Hicks, 29th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Marshall Hicks, 28th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 28th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 29th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 29th R.S. - 1905 Beef Trust, Investigate   City and Town Corporations   Constitutional Amendments   Insurance, Statistics and History   Internal Improvements   Judiciary No. 1 (Chair)  Mining and Irrigation   Pan American College of Commerce   Pan-American Trade Relations and Projected Trades College, Special   Privileges and Elections   Rules   State Penitentiaries   28th R.S. - 1903 Constitutional Amendments   Contingent Expenses   Educational Affairs   Insurance, Statistics and History   Judiciary No. 2   Labor   Military Affairs   Mining and Irrigation   Public Lands and Land Office   San Jacinto Battle Ground Picture Purchasing   State Asylums   Town and City Corporations (Chair)

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