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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriAlexander Monroe DOCKERY
(1845-1926)
DOCKERY, Alexander Monroe,
a Representative from Missouri; born near Gallatin, Daviess County,
Mo., February 11, 1845; attended the common schools and Macon
Academy, Macon, Mo.; studied medicine; was graduated from the St.
Louis (Mo.) Medical College March 2, 1865, and commenced practice
near Linneus, Linn County; attended lectures at Bellevue College,
New York City, and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, during
the winter of 1865-1866; returned to Missouri and settled in
Chillicothe, where he continued the practice of his profession for
seven years; president of the board of education of Chillicothe,
Mo., 1870-1872; served as county physician of Livingston County; in
March 1874 returned to Gallatin, Mo., where he assisted in
organizing the Farmers’ Exchange Bank; chairman of the
congressional committee of his district; member of the city council
of Gallatin 1878-1881; mayor 1881-1883; delegate to and chairman of
the Democratic State conventions in 1886 and 1901; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1899); chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in the Post Office Department (Fiftieth Congress); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1898; Governor of Missouri 1901-1905;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904; appointed
Third Assistant Postmaster General on March 17, 1913, and served
until his resignation on March 31, 1921; died in Gallatin, Mo.,
December 26, 1926; interment in Edgewood Cemetery, Chillicothe,
Livingston County, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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