Emory F. Dyckman (December 19, 1877 – June 8, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
Dyckman was born on December 19, 1877
in
Davenport, New York
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.
Dyckman attended the Groton Academy and
Union College
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. He then went to
Albany Law School
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, graduating from there in 1902. He was admitted to the bar that year.
He initially practiced law in
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, but after his marriage he moved to
Brooklyn
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and practiced law there. He also became prominent in
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politics.
Dyckman lived in
Flatbush. In 1925, he was elected to the
New York State Assembly
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as a Republican, representing the Kings County 21st District. He served in the Assembly in
1926
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and
1927
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. He lost the 1927 re-election to Democrat
Joseph A. Esquirol. He again ran for the Assembly in 1928, only to again lose the election to Esquirol.
Dyckman was a vice chairman of the Brooklyn Bar Association, a vice president of the Kings Highway Savings Bank, and a member of the Brooklyn and Flatbush Chambers of Commerce, the
Union League Club
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, the Flatbush Republican Club, and the
Freemasons
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. He was married to Rhaylein Dalzell. They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Rhaylein.
Dyckman died from apoplexy in
Cobleskill, where he was a guest of New York Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Nichols, on June 8, 1930. He was on his way to
Saratoga Springs
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, where his daughter Rhaylein was to graduate from
Skidmore College
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later that week, when he died.
His funeral took place in the Flatbush Congregational Church and was led by the church's pastor Rev. Dr. William E. Dudley and its former pastor Rev. Dr. Lewis T. Reed. A number of city officials and representatives from various organizations attended the funeral. He was buried in
Catskill.
References
External links
*
The Political Graveyard'
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1877 births
1930 deaths
Union College (New York) alumni
Albany Law School alumni
20th-century American lawyers
Lawyers from Brooklyn
People from Flatbush, Brooklyn
20th-century American legislators
Politicians from Brooklyn
Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly
American Freemasons
American Congregationalists