Thomas Holliday Hicks

This 1867 Marble statue of Thomas Holliday Hicks (1798 - 1865) by H. D. A. Henning stands in the Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge, Maryland.

 H. D. A. Henning

Balto. MD

1867

 

The attached plaque reads:

 “This monument, erected by the state in 1868, honors Thomas Holliday Hicks, a native and life resident of Dorchester County. Late in 1860, and early 1861 as Maryland’s first Civil War governor, he opposed the doctrines of secession and coercion. In furtherance of his policy and resisting great pressure, he refused for five months to call the legislature in special session. During the war he supported the Union.”

 An historical marker outside the cemetery fence says this:

“In this cemetery is the grave of Thomas Holliday Hicks, Governor of Maryland 1858-1862 and United States Senator from Maryland 1862-1865. At the beginning of the Civil War during his tenure as governor, the position of Maryland was more important nationally than at any time in its history. But for him Maryland might have joined the secession movement.”

The governor is shown leaning on a rudder labeled “Maryland.”

The Library of Congress has this 1861 portrait of Governor Hicks: