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词条 J. Benjamin Dimmick
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| name = J. Benjamin Dimmick
| image = JBenjaminDimmock.jpg |image_size = 240px
| order = 14th
| office = Mayor of Scranton
| term_start = 1906
| term_end = 1909
| predecessor = Alex T. Connell
| successor = John Von Bergen Jr.
| birth_date = {{birth-date|October 3, 1858}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|Honesdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{death-date and age|January 14, 1920|October 3, 1858}}
| death_place = Stratford, Ontario, Canada
| spouse =
| party = Republican
| relations =
| children =
| residence = Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| alma_mater =
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Joseph Benjamin Dimmick (October 3, 1858 – January 14, 1920) was a Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania during a cholera epidemic.

Biography

Dimmick was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Samuel E. Dimmick, a Pennsylvania Attorney General.[1] Dimmick was a Mayor of Scranton during a cholera epidemic. Dimmick had successfully run for Mayor of Scranton in 1906 with a specific aim of improving Scranton's sewerage system. Dimmick, Scranton's thirteenth mayor served until 1909.

In 1914 Boies Penrose was re-elected as the Republican senator for Pennsylvania in preference to Dimmick. Dimmick took the message of the defeat and afterwards confined himself to local politics and public speaking.[2]

Dimmick died in Stratford, Ontario in 1920 and left a wife and two daughters. His widowed sister in law became Mary Dimmick Harrison when she married the former President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison.[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web |website=The Political Graveyard |title=Dimmick, Samuel E. (d. 1875) |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#S3J12I0Z4 |accessdate=January 21, 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103140801/http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#S3J12I0Z4 |archivedate=January 3, 2011}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Wenzel|first=David J.|title=Scranton's Mayors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExX4SDKgamQC&pg=PA57&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=58}}
3. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=An Old Inmate of the Family. The ex-President's Relatives Said to be Aggrieved at the Match and Inclined to Grumble. The Wedding to Take Place in St. Thomas's Church in This City April 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/03/29/archives/soon-to-be-mrs-harrison-mrs-dimmick-will-be-a-bride-with-a-domestic.html |quote= |work=New York Times |date=March 29, 1896 |accessdate=2009-12-30 }}
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5 : 1858 births|1920 deaths|Mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania|People from Honesdale, Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania Republicans

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