Oliver J. Dickey (son of
John Dickey) was born in Old
Brighton, Pennsylvania. He attended Beaver Academy and
Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1844 and practiced. He served as district attorney of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from 1856 to 1859. During the
American Civil War, Dickey served as lieutenant colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dickey was elected as a Republican to the
Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Thaddeus Stevens and on the same day was elected to the
Forty-first Congress. He was reelected to the
Forty-second Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1872. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1873. He resumed the practice of law in Lancaster and died in 1876. He was interred in
Woodward Hill Cemetery. ==References==