Jesse Column Dickey (February 27, 1808 – February 19, 1890) was a Whig member of the

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from

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Biography

Jesse C. Dickey was born in

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. He moved with his parents to New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He graduated from New London Academy and began teaching school at

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in 1828. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. Dickey was a member of the

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from 1842 to 1845. He elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress. He served as quartermaster and later paymaster in the

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during the

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. On December 11, 1834, he married Margaret J. Dickey, the daughter of Col. David Dickey of Hopewell Cotton Mill, near Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania. They had nine children. He died in New London in 1891, and was interred in New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

References

Retrieved on 2008-02-14
The Political Graveyard
*History of Chester County, Pennsylvania with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches (1881) and Families and Persons. By J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope.

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