Henry Aldous Dixon

Henry Aldous Dixon ( born June 29, 1890 in Provo, Utah; † January 22, 1967 in Ogden, Utah ) is an American politician ( Republican). Between 1955 and 1961 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years and career advancement

Henry Dixon attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1914, the Brigham Young University in Provo. Then he studied until 1917 at the University of Chicago. Between 1914 and 1918, Dixon Teacher at Weber College, of which he was 1919-1920 and 1937-1953. From 1920 to 1924 he was inspector in Provo, where he had the supervision of the public schools of this city. This post he held from 1932 to 1937 again. In between, he was from 1924 to 1932 vice-president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank. In 1937 he took another course at the University of Southern California.

Between 1946 and 1948 he was a member of a commission appointed by the President, which was concerned with higher education. Since 1945 to 1951 Dixon was branch manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of California in the area of Utah. He continued to be active in the education sector. Between 1950 and 1954 he was director of the Association of Junior Colleges, and from 1953 to 1954 he was also director of the Utah State University in Logan.

Political career

By 1954, Dixon had played no politically significant role in Utah. In the congressional elections this year, his party came a few weeks before the election date in trouble because their candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Douglas R. Stringfellow, owing to false information was no longer acceptable about his past. Stringefellow had won two years earlier, the Congress elected in the first district as a celebrated war hero; since then, his stories had emerged from the war as lies. 16 days before the election, the Republicans nominated Dixon as their new candidate. This had a respectable reputation by his previous activities and was then elected by the citizens in the House of Representatives. There he was able to complete three legislative sessions in 1961 after several re- elections between January 1955 and January 3, 3. In 1960, Dixon gave up another candidacy.

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