Henry Aldous Dixon

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Henry Aldous Dixon

Henry Aldous Dixon (born June 29, 1890 in Provo , Utah , † January 22, 1967 in Ogden , Utah) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). Between 1955 and 1961 he represented the first constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives .

Early years and career advancement

Henry Dixon attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1914 the Brigham Young University in Provo. He then studied at the University of Chicago until 1917 . Between 1914 and 1918 Dixon was a teacher at Weber College , whose director he was between 1919 and 1920 and between 1937 and 1953. From 1920 to 1924 he was a school councilor in Provo, where he oversaw the city's public schools. He held this office again from 1932 to 1937. In between he was Vice President of the Farmers & Merchants Bank from 1924 to 1932 . In 1937 he was still studying at the University of Southern California .

Between 1946 and 1948 he was a member of a commission set up by the president that dealt with higher education. From 1945 to 1951, Dixon was also the branch manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of California in the Utah area. He continued to be active in the school sector. Between 1950 and 1954 he was director of the Association of Junior Colleges and from 1953 to 1954 he was also director of Utah State University at Logan .

Political career

Until 1954, Dixon had played no politically significant role in Utah. In this year's congressional elections, his party ran into trouble a few weeks before the election date because its candidate for the US House of Representatives, Douglas R. Stringfellow , was no longer sustainable due to false information about his past. Stringefellow had won the first constituency congressional election two years earlier as a celebrated war hero; meanwhile his stories from the war had turned out to be lies. 16 days before the election, the Republicans nominated Dixon as their new candidate. He had an innocent reputation through his previous activities and was then also elected to the House of Representatives by the citizens. There he was able to complete three legislative terms between January 3, 1955 and January 3, 1961 after several re-elections. In 1960 Dixon renounced another candidacy.

After his political activities in the federal capital Washington , Henry Dixon was a lecturer at Brigham Young University until 1965.

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