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| Keywords: Oliver H. Dockery - Brady-Handy.jpg Hon Oliver Hart Dockery of N C Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 00037 CALL NUMBER LC-BH83- 46 <P P>P P between 1860 1875 Creator Mathew Brady Creator Levin Corot Handy PD LOC-image cwpbh 00037 Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Rockingham August 12 1830 Son of Alfred Dockery; attended the public schools and Wake Forest College; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1848; studied law but never practiced; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1858 and 1859; served for a short time in the Confederate service but withdrew and advocated sustaining the Federal Government; 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; again engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State constitutional convention in 1875; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1888; appointed United States consul general at Rio de Janeiro on June 14 1889 and served until July 1 1893; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Baltimore March 21 1906; interment in the family cemetery at Mangum North Carolina This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-Brady-Handy DEFAULTSORT Dockery Oliver Photographs by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy Black and white photographic portraits of men Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||||
