David Patterson Dyer

David Patterson Dyer

David Patterson Dyer (born February 12, 1838 in Henry County , Virginia , †  April 29, 1924 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

David Dyer was the uncle of Congressman Leonidas C. Dyer (1871–1957). In 1841 he came with his parents to Lincoln County , Missouri, where he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree in Bowling Green and his license to practice law in 1859, he began to work in this profession. In 1860 he was a district attorney for the Missouri Third Judicial District. During the Civil War , Dyer was a colonel in a Missouri infantry unit .

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1862 and 1865 he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives . In 1866 he was secretary in the State Senate ; In 1868 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , on which General Ulysses S. Grant was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1868 congressional elections , Dyer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded George Washington Anderson on March 4, 1869 . Since he was not confirmed in 1870, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1871 . During this time, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

After retiring from the US House of Representatives, Dyer practiced as a lawyer in St. Louis. In 1880 he ran for the office of governor of Missouri, but was clearly defeated by the Democrat Thomas Theodore Crittenden with 39:52 percent of the vote. Between 1902 and 1907 he was a federal attorney for the eastern part of Missouri; then he served as a judge at the United States District Court in the same district until 1919 , where he succeeded Gustavus A. Finkelnburg . He then retired. David Dyer died in St. Louis on April 29, 1924.

Web links

• David Patterson Dyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Patterson Dyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)