He died at home.
He was editor of the Denison Herald from 1923 to 1927. He later worked at Associated Press offices in Dallas and Austin before moving to Washington to serve as chief of the AP staff at the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Dickson served with the Marines in World War I and was a correspondent with Gannett News Service during World War II. He served as coordinator of information for the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1951 and in 1964 retired as a Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association.
Survivors included two daughters, Cecile Banner of Leesburg, Va., and Sarah Silver of Lovettsville, Va.; a son, Walter Milam Dickson of Knoxville, Tenn.; a sister, Lucille Hinson of Southbury, Conn.; and five grandchildren.
His younger daughter Sarah Silver was formerly married to Bowman Cutter, Jr., who was highly placed in OMB during the Clinton administration.
He was editor of the Denison Herald from 1923 to 1927. He later worked at Associated Press offices in Dallas and Austin before moving to Washington to serve as chief of the AP staff at the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Dickson served with the Marines in World War I and was a correspondent with Gannett News Service during World War II. He served as coordinator of information for the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1951 and in 1964 retired as a Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association.
Survivors included two daughters, Cecile Banner of Leesburg, Va., and Sarah Silver of Lovettsville, Va.; a son, Walter Milam Dickson of Knoxville, Tenn.; a sister, Lucille Hinson of Southbury, Conn.; and five grandchildren.
His younger daughter Sarah Silver was formerly married to Bowman Cutter, Jr., who was highly placed in OMB during the Clinton administration.
He died at home.
He was editor of the Denison Herald from 1923 to 1927. He later worked at Associated Press offices in Dallas and Austin before moving to Washington to serve as chief of the AP staff at the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Dickson served with the Marines in World War I and was a correspondent with Gannett News Service during World War II. He served as coordinator of information for the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1951 and in 1964 retired as a Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association.
Survivors included two daughters, Cecile Banner of Leesburg, Va., and Sarah Silver of Lovettsville, Va.; a son, Walter Milam Dickson of Knoxville, Tenn.; a sister, Lucille Hinson of Southbury, Conn.; and five grandchildren.
His younger daughter Sarah Silver was formerly married to Bowman Cutter, Jr., who was highly placed in OMB during the Clinton administration.
He was editor of the Denison Herald from 1923 to 1927. He later worked at Associated Press offices in Dallas and Austin before moving to Washington to serve as chief of the AP staff at the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Dickson served with the Marines in World War I and was a correspondent with Gannett News Service during World War II. He served as coordinator of information for the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1951 and in 1964 retired as a Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association.
Survivors included two daughters, Cecile Banner of Leesburg, Va., and Sarah Silver of Lovettsville, Va.; a son, Walter Milam Dickson of Knoxville, Tenn.; a sister, Lucille Hinson of Southbury, Conn.; and five grandchildren.
His younger daughter Sarah Silver was formerly married to Bowman Cutter, Jr., who was highly placed in OMB during the Clinton administration.
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