Samuel Dickson (American politician)

Samuel Dickson ( born March 29, 1807 in Bethlehem (now New Scotland ), New York, † May 3, 1858 in New Scotland, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Dickson was born about five years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Bethlehem and grew up there. He completed his preliminary studies. In 1825, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady. He studied medicine, received in May 1829 graduate of the Censors of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and then practiced in New Scotland.

In the congressional elections of 1854 for the 34th Congress Dickson was for the opposition party in the 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Rufus Wheeler Peckham on 4 March 1855. Since he gave up for reelection in 1856, he retired after March 3, 1857 from the Congress. During his tenure, the Kansas - Nebraska Act was passed with its provisions for extension of slavery.

On May 3, 1858, he died in New Scotland and was then buried in the New Scotland Presbyterian Church Cemetery.