Joseph Dickson

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Joseph Dickson (born April 1745 in Chester County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  April 14, 1825 in Rutherford County , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1799 and 1801 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Dickson grew up during the British colonial era. In his youth he came with his parents to Rowan County , North Carolina, where he received an education. He later worked as a tobacco and cotton planter. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War , he became a member of the security committee in his home district in 1775. As a result, he took an active part in the war as an officer in the Continental Army . He became a major in the regular army and a brigadier general in the state militia. Dickson was involved in the Battle of Kings Mountain , among other things .

After the war he began a political career. In 1781 he became a clerk at the Lincoln County District Court . Dickson served in the North Carolina Senate between 1788 and 1795 . At that time he was a member of the founding board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Dickson joined the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . In the congressional election of 1798 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the first constituency of his state, where he succeeded Joseph McDowell on March 4, 1799 . Until March 3, 1801 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . During this time, the new federal capital Washington, DC was moved.

In 1803, Joseph Dickson moved to what would later become Rutherford County, Tennessee. Between 1807 and 1811 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee ; from 1809 he was its speaker . He died on April 14, 1825 and was buried on his Rutherford County plantation.

Web links

  • Joseph Dickson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)