Alfred Dockery

Alfred Dockery (born December 11, 1797 in Rockingham , Richmond County , North Carolina , †  December 7, 1875 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1853 he represented the state of North Carolina twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Alfred Dockery was the father of the future Congressman Oliver H. Dockery (1830-1906). He attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a planter . At the same time he began a political career. In 1822 he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. In 1835 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the state constitution. Dockery had been a member of the Whig Party since the mid-1830s . Between 1836 and 1844 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate .

In the congressional elections of 1844 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Edmund Deberry on March 4, 1845 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1846, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1847 . These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War .

In the elections of 1850 , Dockery in the third district of North Carolina was re-elected to Congress as the successor to Deberry, who had previously also moved to this district. Until March 3, 1853 he was able to spend another term there. In 1854 Dockery ran for governor of North Carolina, but he was defeated by Democrat Thomas Bragg with 49:51 percent of the vote. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War , Dockery became brigadier general of the Tennessee Militia , which operated with the Confederation Army .

After the war, he helped found the Republican Party in North Carolina . In 1866 he applied again for the post of governor, but was without a chance against incumbent Jonathan Worth . Then he worked again as a planter. Alfred Dockery died on December 7, 1875 on his estate near Rockingham.

Web links

• Alfred Dockery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alfred Dockery in the database of Find a Grave (English)