Oliver H. Dockery

Oliver H. Dockery

Oliver Hart Dockery (born August 12, 1830 in Rockingham , Richmond County , North Carolina , †  March 21, 1906 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1871 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Oliver Dockery was the son of Congressman Alfred Dockery (1797-1875). He attended public schools in his home country and then Wake Forest College . He then studied until 1848 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Dockery also studied law, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he worked in agriculture and politics. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1858 and 1859 . At the beginning of the civil war he was a member of the Confederation Army for a short time . But he soon withdrew from the army and became a supporter of the Union. After the war he became a member of the Republican Party .

After the re-admission of the state of North Carolina to the Union, Dockery was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of his state , where he took up his new mandate on July 13, 1868. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1871 . Between 1869 and 1871 he was chairman of the Committee on the Freedmen's Bureau . In 1870 the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified; Oliver Dockery was not re-elected that same year.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to farming. In 1875 he was a member of a convention revising the North Carolina Constitution. In 1888, Oliver Dockery ran for governor of North Carolina, but was defeated by Democrat Daniel Gould Fowle with 47:52 percent of the vote. Between 1889 and 1893 he was the American consul in Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil ). After that he continued his agricultural activities; in addition, he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Populist Party in 1896 for the office of lieutenant governor of North Carolina. He died in Baltimore on March 21, 1906.

Web links

• Oliver H. Dockery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Oliver H. Dockery in the database of Find a Grave (English)