Charles Heber Dickerman

Charles Heber Dickerman ( born February 3, 1843 in Harford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † December 17, 1915 in Milton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Dickerman attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1860, the Harford University. Then he taught for several years as a teacher. He started studying law, but he ended prematurely. In the following years he was an accountant working in a large coal business company in Beaver Meadow. After that, he was himself active in the coal business. In 1868 he opened a slate quarry in Bethlehem. From 1880 to 1899 he was Chief Financial Officer of a company that manufactured railroad supplies. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. For three years he was chairman of the district in Northumberland County. In 1891 he participated in the regional Democratic convention for Pennsylvania; in June 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on the former incumbent Grover Cleveland was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1890s, Dickerman went into the banking industry in various cities of Pennsylvania. In 1897 he became president of the First National Bank in Milton. He continued in this position until his death.

In the congressional elections of 1902, Dickerman was in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Elias Deemer on March 4, 1903. Since he resigned in 1904 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1905. In 1905, Charles Dickerman was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the American delegates to a peace conference in Brussels. Otherwise, he again worked in the banking industry. He died on 17 December 1915 in Milton, where he was also buried.