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  Dickinson, William L.
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NameWilliam L. Dickinson
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Born June 05, 1925
DiedMarch 31, 2008 (82 years)
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InfoWilliam Louis "Bill" Dickinson

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.

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  11/06/1990 AL District 2 Won 51.28% (+2.58%)
  11/08/1988 AL District 2 Won 94.25% (+88.49%)
  11/04/1986 AL District 2 Won 66.70% (+33.40%)
  11/06/1984 AL District 2 Won 60.34% (+21.78%)
  11/02/1982 AL District 2 Won 50.42% (+0.84%)
  11/04/1980 AL District 2 Won 60.59% (+23.91%)
  11/07/1978 AL District 2 Won 54.00% (+8.00%)
  11/02/1976 AL District 02 Won 57.60% (+15.21%)
  11/05/1974 AL District 02 Won 66.11% (+32.22%)
  11/07/1972 AL District 2 Won 54.85% (+13.37%)
  11/03/1970 AL District 2 Won 61.36% (+35.79%)
  11/05/1968 AL District 2 Won 55.36% (+21.15%)
  11/08/1966 AL District 2 Won 54.65% (+9.30%)
  11/03/1964 AL District 2 Won 61.66% (+25.08%)
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