DICKINSON, William Louis, A Representative from Alabama; born in Opelika, Lee County, Ala., June 5, 1925; attended the public schools of Opelika, Ala.; served in United States Navy, 1943-1946; major, United States Air Force Reserves; University of Alabama Law School, J.D., 1950; was admitted to the bar in 1950 and began practice in Opelika, Ala.; Opelika city judge, 1952-1954; judge of Lee County Court of Common Pleas and of Juvenile Court, 1954-1958; circuit judge, Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1958-1962; assistant vice president of the Southern Railway System, 1962-1964; member of Opelika Board of Education, 1954-1962, and served as president in 1961; member and one of cofounders of the board of directors of Lee County Rehabilitation Center, 1960-1962; member of Governor's Industrial Development Committee of One Hundred, 1963; delegate, State Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, 1968, and 1970; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; died on March 31, 2008, in Montgomery, Ala.; interment at Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.
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[ Top ]Aspin, Les, and William Dickinson. Defense for a New Era: Lessons of the Persian Gulf War. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1992.
Dickinson, William Louis. "Food Stamps: Good Intentions Distorted...or Hidden Intentions Fulfilled?" In The Case Against the Reckless Congress, edited by Marjorie Holt, 117-28. Ottawa, Ill.: Green Hill Publishers, 1976.
___. "Manipulating Federal Elections--And Calling it Reform." In Can You Afford This House?, edited by David Treen, 25-31. Ottawa, Ill.: Green Hill Books, 1978.
Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: William L. Dickinson, Republican Representative from Alabama. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.
