David Catchings Dickson

David C. Dickson


4th Lieutenant Governor of Texas
In office December 21, 1853 – December 21, 1855
Governor	Elisha M. Pease
Preceded by	James W. Henderson
Succeeded by	Hardin Richard Runnels
9th Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
In office November 3, 1851 – November 7, 1853
Governor	Peter Hansborough Bell
Preceded by	Charles G. Keenan
Succeeded by	Hardin Richard Runnels
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
In office 1846-1847 1849-1853 1859-1861
Personal details
Born	David Catchings Dickson February 25, 1818 Pike County, Mississippi
Died	June 5, 1880 (age 62) Grimes County, Texas
Political party	Democratic Know Nothing

David Catchings Dickson (25 February 1818 – 5 June 1880) was an American politician and physician in early Texas who served as the ninth Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Texas. He was also a State Senator and unsuccessfully ran for governor of Texas.

Dickson was born 25 February 1818 in Pike County, Mississippi. In 1830, Dickson’s family moved to Georgetown in Copiah County, where he later married Sophronia L. Magee. Dickson attended medical school in Lexington, Kentucky, and after graduating in 1841, moved, as part of a large group, to the Montgomery County, Texas, community of Anderson (present-day Grimes County). Dickson served as a surgeon for the Army of the Republic of Texas. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Montgomery County beginning in 1845.

Sometime before 1850, Dickson had remarried, to the former Nancy Ann E. Magee.

Dickson served in the House of Representatives in the First, Third, and Fourth Texas Legislatures. In the Fourth Legislature, Dickson was elected Speaker of the House, defeating fellow representative Hardin Richard Runnels 30 votes to 27 on the tenth ballot. In his acceptance speech, Dickson promised to work on eliminating debts incurred by the Republic of Texas and passed on to the state.