Denver Sylvester Dickerson (1872-1925) Born in Shasta County, California. Eleventh Governor of Nevada (1908-1910). A member of the Silver - Democratic Coalition Party.  Previous to becoming Governor he held office as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada (1907-1908). During his governorship he worked to reform the state prison system.  After leaving office he became the Superintendent of Federal Prisons and was the warden of Nevada State Prison until his death in 1925.

Dickerson was buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City.   Afterwards, his wife Una became a librarian at the Law Library in Reno, Nevada. She later retired in Reno and died on April 9, 1950.  Una was buried next to her husband, but her ghost reportedly haunts the governor's mansion.

The Dickersons had eight children: Harvey, Norinne, June, Donald, Denver, Belford, Barbara and George. Their sons Harvey, Denver, and George followed their father's footsteps into Nevada state politics. Harvey Dickerson became the Attorney General of Nevada in 1955 and unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1958. The younger Denver Dickerson would go on to become the Speaker of the Nevada Assembly in 1943 and was appointed Secretary of Guam in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy.  George M. Dickerson was elected District Attorney of Clark County, Nevada in 1954 and President of the State Bar of Nevada in 1973.