Wilson Hicks

Wilson Hicks was a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Rankin County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875. He was a Republican and was of the last generation of African-Americans to be elected to state office in Mississippi prior to what was then called "the end to Republican reconstruction" in Mississippi.

He had a wife and children.

In 1876, Hicks was reported to be a "mail rider". In 1896 he was chosen to serve as a commissioner for the "Negro Department" of the Tennessee Centennial.