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Henry Hicks (Nova Scotia politician)

The Honourable
Henry Davies Hicks
CC, QC
16th Premier of Nova Scotia
In office
September 30, 1954 – November 20, 1956
Monarch Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor Alistair Fraser
Preceded by Harold Connolly
Succeeded by Robert Stanfield
Senator for The Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
In office
April 27, 1972 – March 5, 1990
Appointed by Pierre Trudeau
MLA for Annapolis
In office
October 23, 1945 – June 7, 1960
Preceded by John D. McKenzie
Succeeded by district dissolved
Personal details
Born (1915-03-05)March 5, 1915
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Died December 9, 1990(1990-12-09) (aged 75)
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Pauline Banks
Gene Morrison
Rosalie Comeau
Occupation lawyer, university administrator
Religion United Church of Canada

Henry Davies Hicks, CC, QC (March 5, 1915 – December 9, 1990) was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia.

Born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, the son of Henry Hicks and Annie Kinney, Hicks was educated in Bridgetown and at Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Oxford University. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1941. During World War II, he served as a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery.

Hicks was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1945 as a Liberal for Annapolis County and served as Nova Scotia's first Minister of Education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus Lewis Macdonald. When Macdonald died, Hicks ran for the Liberal party leadership against interim leader and then Premier Harold Connolly. The party was badly split along religious lines with Protestants uniting behind Hicks to defeat Connolly who was a Roman Catholic. As the new Premier, Hicks was unable to unite the party and his government was defeated in the 1956 election by Robert Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives.


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