Alexander Monroe Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery was an American physician and politician from the state of Missouri. A Democrat, he was a multiterm member of the United States House of Representatives and the 30th Governor of Missouri.
Alexander Dockery, only child of Willis E. and Sarah Ellen Dockery, was born near Gallatin, Daviess County, Missouri. His father was a Methodist minister and one of the early settlers to the county. The young Dockery attended the local public schools and then studied for a brief time at Macon Academy in before attending the St. Louis Medical College , graduating on March 2, 1865. Dockery established a medical practice in Linneus, Missouri and attended postgraduate lectures at Bellevue College and Jefferson Medical College during the winter of 18651866. He returned to his practice in Linneus for a time before moving to Chillicothe, Missouri. While in practice in Chillicothe, he met and married Mary Elizabeth Bird in 1869. Dockery served as county physician for Livingston County, Missouri from 1870 to 1874. He also made his first tentative step into politics by serving as president of the Chillicothe board of education from 1871 to 1873. In 1872 Dockery began a tenyear period as a mem
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