Born in
Albion, New York, Hickey attended the public schools of his native city and
Buffalo (New York) Law School. He was
admitted to the New York bar in 1896 and commenced practice in
La Porte, Indiana, in 1897.
Congress Hickey was elected as a
Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1931). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the
Seventy-second Congress, for election in 1934 to the
Seventy-fourth Congress, and in 1936 to the
Seventy-fifth Congress.
Later career and death He resumed the practice of law. He died in
Buffalo, New York, August 20, 1942, while on a motor trip. He was interred in Pine Lake Cemetery,
La Porte, Indiana. Hickey had one brother, New York politician and judge
William J. Hickey, who outlived him by a decade. ==References==