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Dockery, Oliver H. (Oliver Hart), 1830-1906

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Personal name headingDockery, Oliver H. (Oliver Hart), 1830-1906
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Variant(s)Dockery, Oliver Hart, 1830-1906
Birth date1830
Death date1896
Place of birthRichmond County (N.C.)
Place of deathBaltimore (Md.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House of Representatives
Profession or occupationDiplomats Politicians
Found inContested 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. )