Joseph Thomas Dickerson was an American judge and politician who served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory between 1904 and 1907, in the Oklahoma House of Representatives between 1914 and 1916, and as an appointed judge in Oklahoma County.
An active member of the Republican Party, he practiced law in Marion, Kansas and was close with U.S. senator Charles Curtis.
[2] In 1904, the United States Congress created four additional judgeships for Indian Territory and Dickerson was appointed to fill one of the new seats in the Southern District by Theodore Roosevelt; he served until statehood.
He ran as the Republican Party's nominee in the 1912 U.S. Senate election.
In 1934, Democratic governor William H. Murray appointed Dickerson to serve on the newly created common pleas court in Oklahoma County.