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

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. Dyckman attended the Groton Academy and

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. He then went to

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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

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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

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as a Republican, representing the Kings County 21st District. He served in the Assembly in

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and

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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

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, the Flatbush Republican Club, and the

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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

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, where his daughter Rhaylein was to graduate from

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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.

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The Political Graveyard
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