Oliver Hart Dockery (12 August 1830-21 March 1906) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NC 3) from 13 July 1868 to 3 March 1871, succeeding Alfred M. Waddell.
Biography[]
Oliver Hart Dockery was born in Rockingham, North Carolina in 1830, the son of congressman Alfred Dockery. He worked as a farmer before becoming active in politics, serving in the State House from 1858 to 1859, in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, in the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction, in the US House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871, and as ambassador to Brazil from 1889 to 1893. In 1896, he failed in his Populist gubernatorial bid, and he died in 1906.