Weldon Hicks was a farmer, judge and state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Virginia. He served as a Justice of the Peace and represented Hinds County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874, 1875, and 1878. He was documented as having been illiterate.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 102
He lived in Edwards, Mississippi.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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