Background
Dickson, John was born on June 1, 1783 in Keene, New Hampshire, United States.
United States representative politician
Dickson, John was born on June 1, 1783 in Keene, New Hampshire, United States.
Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Dickson was graduated from Middlebury College of Vermont in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in West Bloomfield, New New York
Dickson was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835). He served as chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-third Congress). He resumed the practice of law in West Bloomfield, New York, where he died February 22, 1852.
He was interred in Pioneer Cemetery.
His home at West Bloomfield, known as the John and Mary Dickson House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Member of New York State Assembly, 1829-1830. Member United States House