{{Short description|American politician and lawyer (1800–1866)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Daniel S. Dickinson |image = Daniel Dickinson NY.jpg |caption = Dickinson, {{circa}} 1844–1860 |order = 27th |office = Attorney General of New York |term_start = January 1, 1862 |term_end = December 31, 1863 |governor = Edwin D. Morgan<br>Horatio Seymour |predecessor = Charles G. Myers |successor = John Cochrane |office1 = United States Senator <br> from New York |term_start1 = November 30, 1844 |term_end1 = March 3, 1851 |predecessor1 = Nathaniel P. Tallmadge |successor1 = Hamilton Fish |office2 = Lieutenant Governor of New York |term_start2 = January 1, 1843 |term_end2 = December 31, 1844 |governor2 = William C. Bouck |predecessor2 = Luther Bradish |successor2 = Addison Gardiner |office3 = Member of the New York State Senate from the Sixth District |term_start3 = January 1, 1837 |term_end3 = December 31, 1840 |alongside3 = Various (multiple member district) |predecessor3 = John F. Hubbard, Ebenezer Mack, Levi Beardsley, George Huntington |successor3 = Laurens Hull, Alvah Hunt, Andrew B. Dickinson, Nehemiah Platt |birth_name = Daniel Stevens Dickinson |birth_date = {{birth date|1800|9|11}} |birth_place = Goshen, Connecticut, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1866|4|12|1800|9|11}} |death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |resting_place = Spring Forest Cemetery<br />Binghamton, New York, U.S. |party = Democrat |spouse = {{marriage|Lydia Knapp|1822}} |children = 4 |relatives = Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (great-granddaughter) |signature = Signature of Daniel Stevens Dickinson.png |footnotes = }} '''Daniel Stevens Dickinson''' (September 11, 1800 – April 12, 1866) was an American politician and lawyer, most notable as a United States senator from 1844 to 1851.

==Biography== thumb|left|150px|Daniel S. Dickinson Born in Goshen, Connecticut, he moved with his parents to Guilford, Chenango County, New York, in 1806. He attended the common schools, was apprenticed to a clothier, and taught school at Wheatland, New York from 1821 on. In 1822, he married Lydia Knapp, with whom he had four children: Virginia, Manco, Lydia, and Mary; Virginia died at age 20 in 1846, and Manco in 1851.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Litchfield Ledger - Student|url=https://ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/827|access-date=2022-01-30|website=ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=New Oxford Review|url=https://www.newoxfordreview.org/meet-daniel-s-dickinson-statesman-poet/|website=newoxfordreview.org}}</ref> He also engaged in land surveying, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He commenced practice in Guilford, and served as Postmaster of Guilford from 1827 to 1832. He moved to Binghamton, New York and served as its first Village President in 1834.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Gerald|date=2020-11-01|title=Spanning Time: Daniel Dickinson, Galusha Grow were influential Civil War politicians|url=https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2020/11/01/spanning-time-tale-two-men-broome-county-history-dickinson-pennsylvania/6082748002/|access-date=2022-01-31|website=Press & Sun-Bulletin|language=en}}</ref>

He was a member of the New York State Senate (6th D.) from 1837 to 1840, sitting in the 60th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd New York State Legislatures. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1843 to 1844. In 1844, he was a presidential elector, voting for James K. Polk and George M. Dallas.

In 1844, he was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, and was subsequently elected to a full term, holding office from November 30, 1844, to March 3, 1851. He was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance (1849–1850), a member of the Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth United States Congresses), and a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-first United States Congress). As a senator and after, Dickinson was the leader of the conservative Hunker faction of the New York Democratic Party, and would eventually become leader of the "Hards" who opposed reconciliation with the more radical Barnburner faction which had left the party in 1848 to join the Free Soilers. Dickinson resumed the practice of law in 1851. He was delegate to the 1852 Democratic National Convention, where, on the 48th ballot, after efforts to nominate Franklin Pierce had fallen short, Virginia dramatically switched its votes from Pierce to Dickinson. The enthusiastic reaction in the hall suggested that a delegate-stampede to Dickinson might have ensued, but Dickinson then addressed the convention and "eloquently withdrew his own name," enabling Pierce to obtain the nomination on the next ballot.<ref name=Poore>[https://archive.org/details/perleysreminisce00poor/page/n422/mode/1up?view=theater Poore, Ben. Perley, ''Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis'', Vol.1, pp.413-414 (1886)].</ref> In 1853, President Pierce appointed him as Collector of the Port of New York, but he declined to take office. In 1860, he supported John C. Breckinridge for president.

He supported the Union during the American Civil War. He was elected New York State Attorney General in November 1861 on a ticket nominated by the Independent People's state convention (War Democrats), and endorsed by the Republicans. He was appointed United States Commissioner for the final settlement of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound agricultural claims in 1864.

Dickinson was considered as a possible vice presidential candidate when Abraham Lincoln ran for reelection in 1864 and desired a pro-war Democrat on the Republican ticket to demonstrate support for his war policy, but the nomination went to Andrew Johnson. Dickinson supported Lincoln's reelection, and was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1865, an office in which he served until his death.

thumb|right|Grave of Dickinson in Spring Forest Cemetery On April 12, 1866, Dickinson died suddenly in New York City at the residence of his son-in-law Samuel G. Courtney, and was buried at the Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghamton. His cause of death was reported as a hernia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bioguide Search|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000317|access-date=2022-01-30|website=congress.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/04/14/issue.html|website=nytimes.com}}</ref>

==Legacy== [[File:Daniel Dickinson.JPG|thumb|right|180px|Statue of Dickinson at the Broome County Courthouse]] Daniel S. Dickinson is the namesake of the village of Port Dickinson, New York (and the encompassing town), Dickinson County, Iowa, and Dickinson County, Kansas.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n105 106]}}</ref> Dickinson street in Binghamton is named after Dickinson.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-rivers-aid-bingha/128824854/ |title=Rivers aid Binghamton's growth |date=1976-07-04 |newspaper=Press & Sun Bulletin |page=19H |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2023-07-25}}{{Open access}}</ref> A bronze statue of Dickinson by Allen George Newman was erected in front of the Broome County Courthouse in Binghamton, New York in 1924.<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel S. Dickinson, (sculpture). |url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1SF783304L097.3188&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!337362~!4&ri=3&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=broome+county&index=. |website=Art Inventories Catalog |publisher=The Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=12 September 2020}}</ref>

His great-granddaughter Tracy Dickinson Mygatt was a Socialist playwright and pacifist.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2569503/tracy_mygatt_in_1932/ Mary O'Flaherty, "Of Sturdy Whig Stock is Woman Socialist," ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (November 3, 1932): 21.] via Newspapers.com {{open access}}</ref>

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==References== {{CongBio|D000317}} Retrieved on 2009-04-07 *[http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=73&subjectID=3 Mr. Lincoln and New York: Daniel S. Dickinson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050825085529/http://mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=73&subjectID=3 |date=August 25, 2005 }} *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/04/14/79803863.pdf Obit in ''NYT''] on April 14, 1866 (with a few incorrect dates) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060521200856/http://www.oag.state.ny.us/previous_aglist.html List of New York Attorneys General], at Office of the NYSAG

==Further reading== *Speiser, Matt. “The Ticket’s Other Half: How and Why Andrew Johnson Received the 1864 Vice Presidential Nomination.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2006): 42–69. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/42628582 online].

==External links== {{commons category}} {{Portal|Biography}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Daniel S. Dickinson}} *[https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/1215 Daniel S. Dickinson Papers] at [https://www.newberry.org the Newberry Library] * [https://archivesspace.binghamton.edu/public/repositories/2/archival_objects/6530 Daniel S. Dickinson Papers], Binghamton University Libraries *[https://suny-bin.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Daniel%20S.%20Dickinson%20&tab=DigitalCollections&search_scope=DigitalCollections&vid=01SUNY_BIN:01SUNY_BIN&offset=0 Daniel S. Dickinson Digital Collection], Binghamton University Libraries

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