Doug Dickson

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Doug Dickson |honorific_suffix = |image= |order = |term_start = |term_end = |predecessor = |successor = |constituency = |majority = |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1894|3|26}} |birth_place = Cootamundra, New South Wales |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1960|7|27|1894|3|26}} |death_place = Neutral Bay, New South Wales |party = Country Party }} '''Samuel Douglas Dickson''' (26 March 1894 – 27 July 1960) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until his death in 1960. He was a member of the Country Party, serving as its Deputy Leader from 1953 to 1958.

Dickson was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales. He was the son of a monumental mason and was educated to elementary level at Cootamundra Public School. He served in the First Australian Imperial Force in Egypt and France. After the First World War he became a soldier-settler in the Temora, New South Wales region.<ref name="Doug Dickson NSW parl"/> Dickson was elected to the New South Wales Parliament at the 1938 as the Country Party member for Temora.<ref name="Green Temora">{{cite NSW election |title=Elections for the District of Temora |year=DistrictIndexes |district=Temora |access-date=2020-10-29}}</ref> He replaced the retiring member Hugh Main. He retained the seat at the next 7 elections,<ref name="Green Temora"/> and died as the sitting member in 1960.<ref name="Doug Dickson NSW parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Samuel Douglas Dickson (1894-1960) |id=1553 |former=Yes |access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}   {{s-start}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{succession box | title=Member for Temora | before= Hugh Main | after= Jim Taylor| years=1938 – 1960}} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickson, Doug}} Category:1894 births Category:1960 deaths Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Category:Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Category:People from Cootamundra Category:20th-century Australian politicians