Joseph Benjamin Dimmick (October 3, 1858 – January 14, 1920) was a

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during a cholera epidemic.

Biography

Dimmick was born in

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. He was the son of

Samuel E. Dimmick Samuel Erskine Dimmick (December 24, 1822 – October 11, 1875) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, active in Republican politics. He served as state Attorney General, and died in office. Biography and career Dimmick was the son of Alpheus Dimmick, a ...

, a Pennsylvania Attorney General. Dimmick was a Mayor of Scranton during a cholera epidemic. Dimmick had successfully run for Mayor of Scranton in 1906 with a specific aim of improving Scranton's sewerage system. Dimmick, Scranton's thirteenth mayor served until 1909. In 1914

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was re-elected as the Republican senator for Pennsylvania in preference to Dimmick. Dimmick took the message of the defeat and afterwards confined himself to local politics and public speaking. Dimmick died in

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in 1920 and left a wife and two daughters. His widowed sister in law became

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when she married the former President of the United States,

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1858 births 1920 deaths Mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania People from Honesdale, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Republicans {{Pennsylvania-politician-stub