Denver S. Dickerson

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After leaving office, Dickerson became the Superintendent of Federal Prisons, predecessor to the present-day Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was the warden of Nevada State Prison until his death in 1925.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" />

Biography

Dickerson was born on January 24, 1872, to Harvey Franklin and Catherine Melinda Dickerson in Millville in Shasta County, California.<ref name="DenverDickerson">Denver S. Dickerson, grandson of Denver S. Dickerson</ref> His father was a mining pioneer in California.<ref name="Who-World-1911">Template:Cite book</ref> Dickerson received a public school education and was later privately tutored.<ref name="Who-World-1911" /> Dickerson pursued mining in Idaho, Montana, and Nevada.<ref name="DenverDickerson" />

During the Spanish–American War in 1898, Dickerson was deployed as Sergeant of Troop D of the 2nd U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. Upon returning from his tour of duty as First Sergeant in 1899,<ref name="Who-World-1911" /> Dickerson moved to White Pine County, Nevada.<ref name="Who-Nevada-1907">Template:Cite book</ref>

Settlement in Nevada

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Una Reilly Dickerson

In 1902, Dickerson was elected to his first office, the clerk of White Pine County and later became county recorder.<ref name="Who-Nevada-1907" /> On April 23, 1904, Dickerson married Una Reilly of Cherry Creek, Nevada, in a ceremony held in Eureka, Nevada.<ref name="DenverDickerson" /> On November 24, 1904, Dickerson and Charles A. Walker acquired the White Pine News. By October 19, 1905, Dickerson was the newspaper's editor and sole proprietor.<ref name="Newspapers-Nevada-p70">Template:Cite book</ref>

State politics

In 1906, Dickerson decided to run for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada.<ref name="Newspapers-Nevada-p70" /> While attending the Democratic State Convention in Reno as a young delegate, he discovered that no one was interested in running for the office.<ref name="Touring-Nevada-1983-p13">Template:Cite book</ref> In May of that year, he handed over control of the White Pine News to Houlden Hudgins and sold it in the fall.<ref name="Newspapers-Nevada-p70" /> On October 11, 1906, Dickerson founded the Ely Mining Expositor as a weekly paper representing the interests of the Silver-Democratic political coalition. Dickerson won the November election and took office in January 1907. The Ely Mining Expositor was helmed by various editors while Dickerson was in office and moved to daily publication by May 15, 1907.<ref name="Newspapers-Nevada-p72">Template:Cite book</ref>

When fellow Silver-Democrat and Governor John Sparks died in office on May 22, 1908, Dickerson became the acting governor.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" /> The Dickersons became the first family to move into the Nevada Governor's Mansion, recently completed at a cost of $22,700.<ref name="Early-Carson-p60">Template:Cite book</ref> On September 2, 1909, Una gave birth to June, the only child to be born in the mansion.<ref name="NSLA-First-Ladies">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During his gubernatorial tenure, Dickerson worked to restructure state mental hospitals and reform the state prison system. He also found support to reorganize the state Railroad Commission.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" />

The "Fight of the Century"

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Dickerson resisted pressure to cancel the interracial boxing match between James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson.

In 1910, former undefeated boxing champion James J. Jeffries sought to reclaim the heavyweight championship as the "great white hope" from African-American Jack Johnson.<ref name="Johnson-Jeffries-2010">Template:Cite journal</ref> Dickerson was impressed by Johnson's boxing skills and pledged to provide an opportunity for a match in Nevada without racial prejudice.<ref name="Unforgivable-Blackness-2006-p197">Template:Cite book</ref> Despite national pressure against staging the event, Dickerson allowed it to proceed in Reno.<ref name="Papa-Jack-1985-p96">Template:Cite book</ref> Promoter Tex Rickard assured Dickerson that it would be a fair fight.<ref name="DenverDickerson" /> On July 4, 1910, Johnson defeated Jeffries,<ref name="Johnson-Jeffries-2010" /> causing a wave of unrest across the country.<ref name="Unforgivable-Blackness-2006-p218">Template:Cite book</ref> In the election of November 1910, Dickerson was defeated and left office on January 2, 1911.<ref name="DenverDickerson" />

Later work

After leaving the governor's office, Dickerson was appointed superintendent of the Nevada State Police.<ref name="NSLA-Dickerson">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1913, Dickerson was appointed the Warden of Nevada State Prison in Carson City to replace George W. Cowing,<ref name="NevadaLawyer-201006-style">Template:Cite journal</ref> who had problems finding men willing to form a firing squad to execute convicted murderer Andriza Mircovich.<ref name="TheDay-19120812-five">Template:Cite news</ref> The death sentence was eventually carried out by a custom-built shooting machine.<ref name="NevadaLawyer-201006-style" />

Dickerson took office as the Superintendent of Federal Prisons in January 1920 under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.<ref name="Benders-Lawyers-1920">Template:Cite book</ref> In September 1920, Jack Johnson was sent to the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas for incarceration while under Dickerson's administration.<ref name="Unforgivable-Blackness-2006-p405">Template:Cite book</ref> Dickerson worked to have Johnson paroled against unsubstantiated charges.<ref name="Unforgivable-Blackness-2006-p414">Template:Cite book</ref> Dickerson resigned on April 2, 1921,<ref name="NYTimes-19210403">Template:Cite news</ref> when newly elected President Warren G. Harding announced that he would appoint his brother-in-law Heber Herbert Votaw to the office.<ref name="NYTimes-19210404">Template:Cite news</ref>

In December 1923, Dickerson returned to Nevada State Prison.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" /> He supervised the execution of Gee Jon in February 1924, the first to be carried out by gas chamber in the United States.<ref name="FatalAirs-2010">Template:Cite book</ref> Dickerson remained warden until his death in November 1925.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" />

Legacy

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June Dickerson was the only child born in the Nevada Governor's Mansion.

Dickerson was buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City.<ref name="NGA-Dickerson" /> Afterwards, his wife Una was appointed head librarian of the law library at the courthouse in Reno, Nevada.<ref name="DenverDickerson" /> She later retired in Reno and died on April 9, 1959, and was buried next to her husband.<ref name="NSLA-First-Ladies" />

The Dickersons had eight children:<ref name="National-Cyclopaedia-1967">Template:Cite book</ref> Harvey, Norinne, June, Donald, Denver, Belford, Barbara and George.<ref name="Directory-Governors-1978">Template:Cite book</ref> Their sons Harvey, Denver, and George followed their father's footsteps into Nevada state politics. Harvey Dickerson was elected Attorney General of Nevada in 1954 and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1958. Re-elected in 1962 and 1966, Dickerson became the only three time Attorney General of Nevada to serve bifurcated terms of office.<ref name="DenverDickerson" /> The younger Denver Dickerson would go on to become the Speaker of the Nevada Assembly in 1943 and was appointed Secretary of Guam in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.<ref name="ALLW-1911-1994">Template:Cite book</ref> George M. Dickerson was elected District Attorney of Clark County, Nevada in 1954 and President of the State Bar of Nevada in 1973. George's older brother Harvey was the first of three Dickersons to serve as the president of the State Bar of Nevada in 1953. George's son Robert P. Dickerson was the third to serve in 1997.<ref name="Election-Clark-1954">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Nevada-State-Bar-2003">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other offices and affiliations

  • 32nd degree Freemason<ref name="National-Cyclopaedia-1967" />
  • Chairman of the Nevada Board of Education
  • Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners and Insane Asylum
  • President, Blaine Gold Mining and Milling Company
  • President, Robinson Mining Company
  • President, White Pine County Abstract and Guarantee Company
  • Sagebrush Club (Carson City, Nevada)
  • University Club (Ely, Nevada)<ref name="Who-World-1911" />

See also

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