Samuel Dickens

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Samuel Dickens (* near Roxboro , Person County , North Carolina ; †  1840 in Madison County , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between December 1816 and March 1817 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good education, Samuel Dickens began a political career in the early 19th century as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . Between 1813 and 1815 and again in 1818 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina . After the death of Congressman Richard Stanford , Dickens was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the eighth seat of North Carolina , where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1816. Until March 3, 1817, he could only end the current legislative period in Congress .

In 1820 he moved to Madison County, Tennessee, where he died in 1840. Politically it did not appear again after 1817.

Web links

  • Samuel Dickens in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Dickens, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Roxboro , North Carolina
DATE OF DEATH 1840
Place of death Madison County , Tennessee