David W. Dickinson

David W. Dickinson (born June 10, 1808 in Franklin , Tennessee , †  April 27, 1845 in Murfreesboro , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1845 he represented the state of Tennessee twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Dickinson was a nephew of William H. Murfree (1781-1827), who sat in Congress for the State of North Carolina between 1813 and 1817 . He attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Dickinson first joined the movement around Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In the congressional elections of 1832 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Cave Johnson on March 4, 1833 . Until March 3, 1835, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . These were determined by the discussions surrounding President Jackson's policies . It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

Dickinson later moved to the oppositional Whig Party . In the elections of 1842 he was re-elected to Congress as their candidate in the seventh district of his state, where he succeeded Robert L. Caruthers on March 4, 1843 . By March 3, 1845, he completed a further legislative period there, during which a possible annexation of the Republic of Texas , which had been independent of Mexico since 1836 , was discussed. Dickinson was unable to attend the last conference session for health reasons. He died just weeks after the end of that legislature on his father's estate near Murfreesboro. There he was buried in the family cemetery.

Web links

• David W. Dickinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David W. Dickinson in the database of Find a Grave (English)