Joseph A. Dixon
{{Short description|American politician (1879–1942)}}
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{{Infobox Congressman
| name=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 = {{birth date|1879|6|3}}
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio
| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|7|4|1879|6|3}}
| death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio
| restingplace = St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
| party= Democratic
| spouse=
| children =
|alma_mater=Xavier University (Cincinnati)
| religion=
}}
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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
image:Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars.jpg 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.
Sources
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| district = 1
| before=John B. Hollister
| after=Charles H. Elston
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Category:Politicians from Cincinnati
Category:Xavier University alumni
Category:Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives