| J. Benjamin Dimmick | |
| Order: | 14th |
| Office: | Mayor of Scranton |
| Term Start: | 1906 |
| Term End: | 1909 |
| Predecessor: | Alex T. Connell |
| Successor: | John Von Bergen Jr. |
| Birth Name: | Joseph Benjamin Dimmick |
| Death Place: | Stratford, Ontario, Canada |
| Party: | Republican |
| Residence: | Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Joseph Benjamin Dimmick (October 3, 1858 – January 14, 1920) was a Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania during a cholera epidemic.
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]