Alfred Dockery
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Alfred Dockery (1797 - 1875) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Rockingham, North Carolina, December 11, 1797; attended the public schools; engaged in planting; member of the State house of commons in 1822; member of the State constitutional convention in 1835; served in the State senate 1836-1844.
Dockery was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; elected to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853). He was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1854 [1] and the unsuccessful National Union (Republican) candidate for Governor in 1866.[2] Dockery died near Rockingham, Richmond County, N.C., on December 7, 1875; interment in the family cemetery.
He was the father of Oliver Hart Dockery.
[edit] See also
- Twenty-ninth United States Congress
- Thirty-second United States Congress
- U.S. Congressional Biographical Directory
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