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Alfred Dockery

Alfred Dockery (11 December 1797-3 December 1873) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-NC 4) from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1847 (succeeding Edmund Deberry and preceding Augustine Henry Shepperd) and from NC-3 from 4 March 1851 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Deberry and preceding William Shepperd Ashe). His son Oliver H. Dockery followed him into politics.

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Alfred Dockery was born in Rockingham, North Carolina in 1797, and he worked as a planter before serving in the House of Commons in 1822, in the State Senate from 1836 to 1844, and in the US House of Representatives from 1845 to 1847 and from 1851 to 1853. Dockery long advocated for the right of free Blacks to vote, and he mounted an unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial bid in 1866. He died in 1873.

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