Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Dickinson, Clement Cabell

Dickinson, Clement Cabell, a Representative from Missouri; born at Prince Edward Court House, Prince Edward County, Va., December 6, 1849; tutored privately and also attended private schools; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in June 1869; taught school in Virginia and Kentucky 1869-1872; moved to Clinton, Mo., in September 1872 and continued teaching; also studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Clinton, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Henry County, Mo., 1877-1882; city attorney of Clinton 1882-1884; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Bryan and Sewell in 1896; member of the State house of representatives 1900-1902; served in the State senate 1902-1906; member of the board of regents of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., 1907-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David A. De Armond; reelected to the Sixty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from February 1, 1910, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; elected to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law at Clinton, Mo., where he died January 14, 1938; interment in Englewood Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Dickinson, Clement Cabell," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1083 Original Sources, accessed April 25, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VG2UU1GCWL3SQ1.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Dickinson, Clement Cabell." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1083, Original Sources. 25 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VG2UU1GCWL3SQ1.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Dickinson, Clement Cabell' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1083. Original Sources, retrieved 25 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VG2UU1GCWL3SQ1.