Jay Dickey

Jay Dickey

Jay W. Dickey (born December 14, 1939 in Pine Bluff , Arkansas , † April 20, 2017 in Little Rock , Arkansas) was an American politician . Between 1993 and 2001 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jay Dickey attended Pine Bluff High School through 1957 and then Hendrix College . He then studied until 1963 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville law. After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in this profession in Pine Bluff. Between 1968 and 1970 he was also a lawyer in his hometown. He later gave a few lectures at the University of Arkansas. In 1988 he was a brief special judge at the Supreme Court of his home state. Then he worked again as a private lawyer. He was also the owner of a business.

Politically, Dickey became a member of the Republican Party . In the 1992 congressional elections, he was the first Republican in the fourth district of Arkansas to be elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Beryl Anthony on January 3, 1993 . After three re-elections, Dickey had four terms in Congress through January 3, 2001 . There he was temporarily a member of the budget committee and some sub-committees. Dickey is considered conservative.

In 2000 he was defeated in the elections to the Democrat Mike Ross . Also in 2002, Dickey ran unsuccessfully against Ross. He lost 40% to 60% of the vote. Jay Dickey ran the JD Consulting Co. , a consultancy firm in Washington that acts as a lobbying firm for the interests of its clients in various fields with the federal government.

Web links

• Jay Dickey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)