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Oliver H. Dockery. Library of Congress description: "Hon. [Oliver Hart] Dockery of N.C."
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00037. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 46

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between 1860 and 1875
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Mathew Brady or Levin Handy
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English: Oliver Hart Dockery (1830 - 1906) was a 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.

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