Samuel Douglas Dickson (26 March 1894 – 27 July 1960) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

from 1938 until his death in 1960. He was a member of the Country Party, serving as its

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from 1953 to 1958. Dickson was born in

Cootamundra, New South Wales Cootamundra, nicknamed Coota, is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia and within the Riverina. It is within the Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council. At the 2016 Census, Cootamundra had a population of 6,782. ...

. He was the son of a monumental mason and was educated to elementary level at Cootamundra Public School. He served in the

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in Egypt and France. After the First World War he became a soldier-settler in the

Temora, New South Wales Temora () is a town in the north-east of the Riverina area of New South Wales, south-west of the state capital, Sydney. At the the population of Temora was 4,016. Temora was named by John Donald McCansh. In September 1880 he told the Warwick ...

region. Dickson was elected to the New South Wales Parliament at the

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

as the Country Party member for Temora. He replaced the retiring member Hugh Main. He retained the seat at the next 7 elections, and died as the sitting member in 1960.

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1894 births 1960 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly People from Cootamundra 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-National-politician-stub