LC control no. | no2010118982 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Dockery, Oliver H. (Oliver Hart), 1830-1906 |
Variant(s) | Dockery, Oliver Hart, 1830-1906 |
Birth date | 1830 |
Death date | 1896 |
Place of birth | Richmond County (N.C.) |
Place of death | Baltimore (Md.) |
Affiliation | United States. Congress. House of Representatives |
Profession or occupation | Diplomats Politicians |
Found in | Contested election case of Oliver H. Dockery vs. John D. Bellamy, from the Sixth Congressional District of the State of North Carolina, 1899: t.p. (Oliver H. Dockery) OCLC, July 20, 2010: (hdg. Dockery, Oliver Hart) Dictionary of North Carolina biography, c1979-c1996 (Dockery, Oliver Hart; b. Aug. 12, 1830, Richmond County, N.C., d. Mar. 21, 1906, Baltimore, Md.; congressman and diplomat) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, viewed online 2012-03-12: (hdg.: Dockery, Oliver Hart; b. Aug. 12, 1830, Richmond County, N.C.; member of the N.C. State house of representatives in 1858 and 1859; upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation 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; chairman, Committee on the Freedmen's Bureau (Forty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; member of the State constitutional convention in 1875; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1888; appointed United States consul general at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 1889, and served until July 1, 1893; d. in Baltimore, Md., March 21, 1906; interment in the family cemetery at Mangum, Richmond County, N.C. ) |