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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Milton Jimmy Hickey, Jr.
| birth_date=August 5, 1966
| birth_place=Texarkana, Miller County<br>Arkansas, USA
| residence=Texarkana, Arkansas
| death_date=
| death_place=
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| office=[[Arkansas]] State Senator<br> for District 11 (Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Hempstead, and Sevier counties)
| term_start=January 2013
| term_end=
| preceded=Robert F. Thompson
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=Texas A&M University–Commerce in Texarkana, Texas
| occupation=[[Business]]man
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| spouse=Denise Lynn Love Hickey
| children=Sawyer Hickey}}
'''Milton Jimmy Hickey, Jr.''' (born November 5, 1966), is a self-employed [[business]]man in his native Texarkana, [[Arkansas]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator from District 11, which includes Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Hempstead, and Sevier counties.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2013/Member%20Profiles/Senator%20Hickey%20-%20Senate%20Bio.pdf|title=Biography of the Honorable Jimmy Hickey, Jr., Arkansas State Senator|publisher=arkleg.state.ar.us|accessdate=December 5, 2013; information no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>
In January 2015, Hickey became the Senate Majority Whip. He is currently the Senate President Pro Tempore.
==Background==
Hickey obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Texarkana, [[Texas]], campus of Texas A&M University–Commerce, formerly known as East Texas State University. He owns three companies, GBU Operations, Inc., Oak Creek Investment Properties, Inc., and XB Construction. He is a former vice-president of Commercial National Bank of Texarkana, an institution in both Texas and Arkansas with which he was affiliated for twenty-five years.<ref name=mjhickeyjr>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/136738/jimmy-hickey-jr#.UqCyBBXnYfR|title=Jimmy Hickey's Biography|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
Hickey and his wife, the former Denise Lynn Love (born 1969), have one son, Sawyer Hickey. He is a member of the Trinity [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Texarkana, Arkansas.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/>
==Political life==
From 2004 to 2010, Hickey served for two terms on the Texarkana (Arkansas) School Board and for a time was the board vice-president and the president.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/> He was elected to the Senate from the revised District 11 in 2012 when he narrowly unseated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Steve Harrelson, 14,510 votes to 13,148, formerly the senator for District 21. The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat [[attorney]] Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20. Hickey's Senate term expires at the end of 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_State_Senate_elections,_2012|title=Arkansas State Senate elections, 2012|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
Hickey serves on these Senate committees: (1) Legislative Joint Auditing, (2) Performance Review, (3) State Agencies and Governmental Affairs, and (4) Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/> He is a member of the Southern Legislative Conference, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and the [[conservative, Jr.|conservative]] [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC).<ref name=bio/>
Hickey opposes [[abortion]], having voted to ban the practice after twenty weeks of [[gestation]] or whenever fetal heartbeat is determined. He voted to allow university staff to carry concealed weapons.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/136738/jimmy-hickey-jr#.UqCuohXnYfQ|title=Jimmy Hickey's Voting Records|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
In 2013, Hickey joined the Senate majority to amend state income tax rates and to reduce the amount of weekly unemployment compensation. He also voted to test the recipients of unemployment compensation for illegal use of [[narcotics]]. He voted successfully to override then [[Governor]] [[Mike Beebe]]'s [[veto]] of a bill to require photo identification when one casts a ballot in Arkansas. He voted to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan. He voted to allow handguns to be carried on church properties and sponsored a bill to forbid the release of information on the holders of concealed carry permits. He did not vote on the issue of permitting the sale of [[Louis Pasteur|unpasteurized]] whole milk within his state.<ref name=votingrecords/>
==References==
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[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
| name=Milton Jimmy Hickey, Jr.
| birth_date=August 5, 1966
| birth_place=Texarkana, Miller County<br>Arkansas, USA
| residence=Texarkana, Arkansas
| death_date=
| death_place=
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| office=[[Arkansas]] State Senator<br> for District 11 (Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Hempstead, and Sevier counties)
| term_start=January 2013
| term_end=
| preceded=Robert F. Thompson
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=Texas A&M University–Commerce in Texarkana, Texas
| occupation=[[Business]]man
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
| spouse=Denise Lynn Love Hickey
| children=Sawyer Hickey}}
'''Milton Jimmy Hickey, Jr.''' (born November 5, 1966), is a self-employed [[business]]man in his native Texarkana, [[Arkansas]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state senator from District 11, which includes Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Hempstead, and Sevier counties.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2013/Member%20Profiles/Senator%20Hickey%20-%20Senate%20Bio.pdf|title=Biography of the Honorable Jimmy Hickey, Jr., Arkansas State Senator|publisher=arkleg.state.ar.us|accessdate=December 5, 2013; information no longer accessible on-line}}</ref>
In January 2015, Hickey became the Senate Majority Whip. He is currently the Senate President Pro Tempore.
==Background==
Hickey obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Texarkana, [[Texas]], campus of Texas A&M University–Commerce, formerly known as East Texas State University. He owns three companies, GBU Operations, Inc., Oak Creek Investment Properties, Inc., and XB Construction. He is a former vice-president of Commercial National Bank of Texarkana, an institution in both Texas and Arkansas with which he was affiliated for twenty-five years.<ref name=mjhickeyjr>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/136738/jimmy-hickey-jr#.UqCyBBXnYfR|title=Jimmy Hickey's Biography|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
Hickey and his wife, the former Denise Lynn Love (born 1969), have one son, Sawyer Hickey. He is a member of the Trinity [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church in Texarkana, Arkansas.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/>
==Political life==
From 2004 to 2010, Hickey served for two terms on the Texarkana (Arkansas) School Board and for a time was the board vice-president and the president.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/> He was elected to the Senate from the revised District 11 in 2012 when he narrowly unseated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Steve Harrelson, 14,510 votes to 13,148, formerly the senator for District 21. The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat [[attorney]] Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20. Hickey's Senate term expires at the end of 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_State_Senate_elections,_2012|title=Arkansas State Senate elections, 2012|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
Hickey serves on these Senate committees: (1) Legislative Joint Auditing, (2) Performance Review, (3) State Agencies and Governmental Affairs, and (4) Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs.<ref name=mjhickeyjr/> He is a member of the Southern Legislative Conference, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and the [[conservative, Jr.|conservative]] [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC).<ref name=bio/>
Hickey opposes [[abortion]], having voted to ban the practice after twenty weeks of [[gestation]] or whenever fetal heartbeat is determined. He voted to allow university staff to carry concealed weapons.<ref name=votingrecords>{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/136738/jimmy-hickey-jr#.UqCuohXnYfQ|title=Jimmy Hickey's Voting Records|publisher=votesmart.org|accessdate=January 26, 2021}}</ref>
In 2013, Hickey joined the Senate majority to amend state income tax rates and to reduce the amount of weekly unemployment compensation. He also voted to test the recipients of unemployment compensation for illegal use of [[narcotics]]. He voted successfully to override then [[Governor]] [[Mike Beebe]]'s [[veto]] of a bill to require photo identification when one casts a ballot in Arkansas. He voted to make the office of prosecuting attorney in Arkansas nonpartisan. He voted to allow handguns to be carried on church properties and sponsored a bill to forbid the release of information on the holders of concealed carry permits. He did not vote on the issue of permitting the sale of [[Louis Pasteur|unpasteurized]] whole milk within his state.<ref name=votingrecords/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hickey, Jr., Jimmy}}
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]