Oliver H. Dockery

Who was Oliver H. Dockery?

Oliver Hart Dockery, son of Alfred Dockery, was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.

Dockery attended the public school 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; 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 Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina in 1888; appointed United States consul general at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 14, 1889, and served until July 1, 1893; resumed agricultural pursuits; unsuccessful Populist Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1896; died in Baltimore, Maryland, March 21, 1906; interment in the family cemetery at Mangum, North Carolina.