Andrew James Hickey was a U.S. Representative

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 from Indiana

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Born in Albion, New York, Hickey attended the public schools of his native city and Buffalo (New York) Law School

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. He was admitted to the New York bar

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 in 1896 and commenced practice in La Porte, Indiana, in 1897.

Hickey was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 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

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, for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress

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, and in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress

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. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Buffalo, New York

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, August 20, 1942, while on a motor trip. He was interred in Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, Indiana.