Oliver H. Dockery
Oliver H. Dockery | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 3rd district | |
In office July 13, 1868 – March 3, 1871 | |
Preceded by | Warren Winslow |
Succeeded by | Alfred Moore Waddell |
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Born | Wake Forest College University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | August 12, 1830
Oliver Hart Dockery (August 12, 1830 near Rockingham, North Carolina – March 21, 1906), son of Alfred Dockery, was a farmer and a politician, elected as a Republican Congressional Representative from North Carolina after the Civil War. Before the war he was elected in 1858 to one term in the State house of representatives.
Early life
Oliver Hart Dockery was born in 1830 in Rockingham, North Carolina. He attended public school and
Civil War and after
During the American Civil War, he served for a short time in the Confederate service, but withdrew and advocated sustaining the Federal Government. Upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation, he was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress; reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1871. He was chairman, Committee on the Freedmen's Bureau (Forty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. After that he returned to agricultural pursuits. In 1875, following the increasing violence of the election campaign of 1874, when a Democratic governor was elected, he was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1875.
Dockery was an unsuccessful Republican nominee for
He returned to politics in 1896, running as an unsuccessful
Dockery died in