Samuel Dickson (politician, 1807)

Samuel Dickson (born March 29, 1807 in Bethlehem , New York , † May 3, 1858 in New Scotland , New York) was an American doctor and politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Dickson was born and raised in Bethlehem approximately five years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He completed his preliminary studies. In 1825 he graduated from Union College in Schenectady . He studied medicine , received a diploma from the Censors of the Medical Society of the State of New York in May 1829, and then practiced in New Scotland.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress , Dickson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the opposition party in the 14th Congressional electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Rufus Wheeler Peckham on March 4, 1855 . Since he on a run again in 1856 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1857 Congress of. During his tenure, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed with its provisions on the extension of slavery .

He died in New Scotland on May 3, 1858 and was buried in the New Scotland Presbyterian Church Cemetery .

Web links

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

• Samuel Dickson in the database of Find a Grave (English)