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Richard
Hickman
Born in Culpeper County Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of James Hickman Sr
and Hannah (Lewis) Hickman
Brother of
Susannah (Hickman) Browning, David Lewis Hickman, Anna (Browning) Holladay, Henry Hickman, Eleanor (Hickman) Hill, James Lewis Hickman Jr., Joel Hickman and Hannah Hickman
Husband of
Lydia (Calloway) Hickman
— married
after 1786 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Matilda Callaway (Hickman) Hanson
Died
at about age 75
in Clark County Kentucky
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Aug 2014
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Biography
Richard was born in 1757. Richard Hickman ... He passed away in 1832. [1]
Richard Hickman was born in 1757 to Maj. James Hickman and Hannah Lewis Hickman and served in the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of general.
He served as Clark County's first legislative representative from 1793 to 1798. He further served on the 1799 Kentucky Constitutional Convention. Following the Constitutional Convention, he became one of the first twelve men to be members of the Kentucky Senate, and served in that body three separate times from 1800 to 1808, again from 1811 to 1812, and finally from 1819 to 1822.
Richard Hickman was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, serving in that capacity from 1812 to 1816 under Governor Isaac Shelby and served briefly as acting governor in 1813, during the time that Gov. Shelby was leading Kentucky troops in the War of 1812.
Hickman is U.S. President Barack Obama's 7th-great uncle.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hickman and father's findagrave memorial.
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Sources
- ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Al Adams, Saturday, August 30, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America: From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time, Volume 1. William Terrell Lewis Courier-journal job printing Company, 1893 - Doyle Collection - 454 pages ebook, pg 131.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Richard:
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~0.78%
Martha Mason
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A888886 [compare], Ancestry member mmason3358
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