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James Dixon(August5, 1814 – March 27, 1873) was aUnited Dixon, son of William & Mary (Field) Dixon,was born August 5, 1814 inEnfield, Connecticut,Dixon pursued preparatory studies, and graduated fromWilliams CollegeinWilliamstown,Massachusettsin 1834, where he had been a charter memberofThe Kappa Alpha Society.He was elected toPhi Beta Kappa. He studiedlaw, and was admitted to thebarin 1834 and commenced practice in Enfield. Dixon wasa member of theConnecticutHouse of Representativesin 1837–1838 and 1844, and served asspeaker in 1837; he moved toHartford, Connecticutin1839 and continued the practice of law. He married Elizabeth Lord Cogswell onOctober 1, 1840. They had two sons, James Wyllys Dixon and Henry WhitfieldDixon, and two daughters, Elizabeth L. Dixon and Clementine Lydia Dixon.Clementinewas courted (unsuccessfully) by the paleontologist,Othniel Charles Marsh. Dixonwas elected as a representative of Connecticut's 1st District, as aWhigto the House,serving during the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845 – March4, 1849),and was a member of the State houseof representatives in 1854. He declined the nomination forGovernor of Connecticutin1854, and was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1854. Dixonwas elected as aRepublicantothe U.S. Senate in 1856, and reelected in 1863,serving from March 4,1857, to March 4, 1869. On 16 December 1861,Lyman Trumbullasked the Senate to consider hisresolution: "That the Secretary of State be directed to inform the Senatewhether, in the loyal States of the Union, any person or persons have beenarrested and imprisoned and are now held in confinement by orders from him orhis Department; and if so, under what law said arrests have been made, and saidpersons imprisoned." Dixon, supporting repression, said of the resolution:"it seems to me calculated to produce nothing but mischief". While in the Senate, he was chairman ofthe Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-seventh andThirty-eighth Congresses) and a member of the Committees onDistrict of Columbia(Thirty-eighthand Thirty-ninth Congresses) and Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-ninthCongress).[7]He was an unsuccessfulDemocraticcandidatefor the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in 1868, primarily becausehe had been the first Republican member of the Senate to oppose the impeachmentof President Andrew Johnson. Related Items: