Ex-Rep. Bill Dickinson, 82
Posted: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 1:59 amMONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Rep. Bill Dickinson, a Democrat-turned-Republican who championed a strong defense and helped make Alabama a two-party state, has died. He was 82.
Longtime aide Walter Bamberg said Tuesday that Dickinson, who served in the House from 1965 to 1993, died Monday at his Montgomery home after suffering from colon cancer.
Dickinson, a former judge in city, juvenile and circuit courts in Opelika, was one of several Democrats recruited to change parties in 1964 and run as Republicans for Congress in a state that had been solidly Democratic for a century. … Read full obituary
