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Milo Melankthon Dimmick (October 30, 1811 – November 22, 1872) was a Democratic member of the
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Biography

Milo Melankthon Dimmick (brother of
William Harrison Dimmick William Harrison Dimmick (December 20, 1815 – August 2, 1861) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1857 to 1861. ...
) was born in
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. He pursued classical studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in
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. Dimmick was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. While a member of congress, he served a chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War during the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in
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. He resumed the practice of law. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president judge of the twenty-second judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1853. He moved to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in present-day
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, in 1853 where he continued the practice of law and also engaged in the banking business. He died there in 1872, and was buried in Mauch Chunk Cemetery.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimmick, Milo M. 1811 births 1872 deaths 19th-century American lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania lawyers People from Milford, Pennsylvania 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives