Dick then served as colonel of the First Regiment in 1825 before becoming brigadier general of the Second Brigade, Sixteenth Division of the Pennsylvania Militia in 1831.

He subsequently served as associate judge of Crawford County, Pennsylvania and was a supporter of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad.

Dick also served as a trustee of Allegheny College and president of Crawford Mutual Insurance Company.

[2] Dick was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Whig in 1852 for the 33rd Congress.

Son George was as cadet at West Point in 1850, assigned to duty in Texas in Col. Robert E. Lee’s regiment, and died in 1856.