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Paul DeForest Hicks

Paul DeForest Hicks is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. After practicing law in Denver, Colorado, he returned to New York where he joined J.P. Morgan. Retiring as a ...view morePaul DeForest Hicks is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. After practicing law in Denver, Colorado, he returned to New York where he joined J.P. Morgan. Retiring as a Managing Director after more than thirty years, he began a third career as a writer. He is the author of Joseph Henry Lumpkin: Georgia’s First Chief Justice, which Atlanta History called, “A concise, direct and imminently readable volume…” His second book, John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age, was described by one reviewer as “A valuable insight into the influence of the legal profession in the Gilded Age.”view less