John Dean Dickinson (June 28, 1767 – January 28, 1841) was a

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Biography

Dickinson was born in Middletown in the

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. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from

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in 1785, and in 1790 he moved to

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. He was admitted to the bar in April 1791, and commenced the practice of law in Lansingburgh. Dickinson moved to

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, and served as president of the Farmers' Bank of Troy, New York, from the bank's foundation in 1801 until his death in 1841. Dickinson was a director and founder of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Insurance Co. in 1814. He served as a member of the

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from November 1816 to April 1817, and was the first president of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History in 1818. Dickinson was elected as a

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to the

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and Seventeenth Congresses from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1823. He was one of the original trustees of the

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in 1824. He served as a member of the committee which received Lafayette on his visits to Troy in 1824 and 1825. Dickinson was elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829. He was reelected as an

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to the Twenty-first Congress from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1831. After serving in Congress, Dickinson resumed the practice of law in Troy, and died there on January 28, 1841. He is interred at Oakwood Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickinson, John Dean 1767 births 1841 deaths Politicians from Middletown, Connecticut New York (state) National Republicans 19th-century American politicians Yale College alumni New York (state) lawyers Members of the New York State Assembly People from Lansingburgh, New York Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Politicians from Troy, New York Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) 19th-century American lawyers