William Worth Dickerson

William Worth Dickerson (born November 29, 1851 in Sherman , Grant County , Kentucky , †  January 31, 1923 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1890 and 1893 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Dickerson attended public schools in his home country and then a private school in Crittenden . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1872, he began to work in Williamstown in this profession. Between 1872 and 1876 he was a prosecutor in Grant County.

Dickerson was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1885 and 1887 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives ; from 1887 to 1891 he was a member of the State Senate . After the resignation of MP John Griffin Carlisle , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due in the sixth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on June 21, 1890. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1890, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1893 .

For the election of 1892, William Dickerson was no longer nominated by his party for another term. He then practiced again as a lawyer in Williamstown. In 1902 he moved to Cincinnati, where he also worked in the same profession. He died there on January 31, 1923.

Web links

• William Worth Dickerson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Worth Dickerson in the database of Find a Grave (English)