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Samuel Dickens ( ca. 1775July 22, 1840) was a Congressional Representative from
North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...
; born near Roxboro in
Person County, North Carolina Person County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The population was 39,097 as of the 2020 census. The county seat is Roxboro. Person County is included in the Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a ...
around 1775.NC Pedia
/ref> He was a member of the North Carolina state house of commons from 1813 to 1815, and in 1818. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early ...
to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Richard Stanford (December 2, 1816 – March 3, 1817). He moved to
Madison County, Tennessee Madison County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 98,823. Its county seat is Jackson. Madison County is included in the Jackson, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. H ...
in 1820 and died there in 1840.


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Fourteenth United States Congress The 14th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in the Old Brick Capitol in Washing ...


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U.S. Congress Biographical Directory entry
1770s births 1840 deaths People from Person County, North Carolina Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina People from Madison County, Tennessee 19th-century American politicians {{NorthCarolina-politician-stub