Lester J. Dickinson
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Lester Jesse Dickinson (October 29, 1873 - June 4, 1968) was a United States Representative and Senator from Iowa.
Born in Derby, Iowa, he attended the public schools and graduated from Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa) in 1898, and from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1899. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in Algona, Iowa. He was a second lieutenant in the Fifty-second Infantry, Iowa National Guard, from 1900 to 1902 and was city clerk of Algona from 1900 to 1904. He held the office of prosecuting attorney of Kossuth County from 1909 to 1913, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1930, having become a candidate for Senator; he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937. He unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 and for election in 1938. He resumed the practice of law in Des Moines, where he died in 1968. Interment was in Algona Cemetery.
Lester Dickinson's cousin, Fred Dickinson Letts, was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.
