J.F. Hicks
- Sheriff Caption: The primary election was held on February 16, 1944. Two individuals were vying for the office of the sheriff, J.F. Hicks and T.M. “Tom” Sanders. Hicks won the election but it was contested by Sanders. Another election was scheduled for July 4, 1944. It is interesting to note, each candidate named their personnel that would assume office with a successful bid. Sheriff Babe Hicks named Mrs. Mary Legg Miller as one such deputy. This is the earliest known record of a female deputy sheriff for Cobb County. The rest of Hick’s personnel named were Chief Deputy M.D. Gable, J.E. Marler, H.L. Strickland, Arthur Mitchell, and Cecil F. Bullard. This represented six deputies versus the nine deputies named by Sanders. This list was published in The Marietta Journal dated January 6, 1944.
J.F. Hicks became sheriff in 1941 but died in May of 1944. Hicks was commonly referred to as “Babe.” It had been reported that Hicks was sick with influenza prior to the election of 1944 and could not leave his “sickroom.”
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