William L. Dickinson

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. Interment at Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.