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. …
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
