Joseph A. Dixon Explained

Joseph Andrew Dixon
Image Name:JADixon-Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars (cropped).jpg
Caption:Leaving White House, March 7, 1938.
State:Ohio
District:1st
Term Start:January 3, 1937
Term End:January 3, 1939
Preceded:John B. Hollister
Succeeded:Charles H. Elston
Birth Date:3 June 1879
Birth Place:Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place:Cincinnati, Ohio
Restingplace:St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Party:Democratic
Alma Mater:Xavier University (Cincinnati)

Joseph Andrew Dixon (June 3, 1879 – July 4, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Early life and career

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dixon attended St. Patrick's School, Hughes High School, and Xavier University in Cincinnati. He served as clerk in a mercantile store 1893-1900. He engaged in retail clothing business in Anderson, Indiana, Hartford City, Indiana, and Cincinnati. He was also a manager and owner of amateur and professional baseball teams and active in young men's welfare work.

Congress

left|250px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves White House after asking Franklin D. Roosevelt for $80,000,000 for flood control in Ohio Valley, March 7, 1938. front: l-r Joseph A. Dixon, James G. Polk, Eugene B. Crowe, G W Johnson, Lawrence E. Imhoff, rear l-r : Peter J. De Muth, Kent E. Keller, Brent Spence.Dixon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed his former business pursuits in Cincinnati until his death there on July 4, 1942. He was interred in St. Joseph's Cemetery.