Edward Hicks was born in
Conneaut, Ohio, in October 1818. He received a common school and academic education, and moved west to the
Wisconsin Territory in the early 1840s. He settled in
Green Bay, where he remained for nearly three decades. Hicks was affiliated with the
Democratic Party, and under President
James K. Polk, he was appointed postmaster at Green Bay, serving until the end of the Polk administration. He was subsequently re-appointed postmaster in 1853, under President
Franklin Pierce, and was retained as postmaster under President
James Buchanan. He was named postmaster of Green Bay again in 1866, under President
Andrew Johnson, but he was one of several Johnson nominees ultimately rejected by the Republican Senate. In 1869, Hicks ran for state office again, running as the Democratic nominee for
Wisconsin State Assembly in Brown County's 1st Assembly district. The district then comprised Green Bay and roughly the eastern half of Brown County. He defeated Republican Louis Schiller in the general election and went on to serve in the
1870 legislative session. He died of a stroke in Sioux City on May 15, 1873. ==Personal life and family==