Nathan F. Dixon I

Nathan Fellows Dixon ( born December 13, 1774 Plainfield, Connecticut; † January 29, 1842 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Whig Party, who represented the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. Senate.

Dixon first attended a private school in his hometown, the Plainfield Academy, in 1799 before he graduated from the College of Rhode Iceland in Providence, Brown University today made ​​. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and practiced as a lawyer then in New London County, Connecticut. In 1802 he began his law career in Westerly continued in Rhode Iceland, where he also got in the banking industry. From 1829 until his death he was president of the Washington bank there.

Dixon, who served in the state militia with the rank of colonel in 1813 drew the first time as a Member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland; another session he graduated from there in 1830 Finally, he represented his country as of the March 4, 1839 in the U.S. Senate in Washington.; there he was, among other Committee Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. He died during his term in January 1842 and was buried in Westerly.

His son of the same sat for Rhode Iceland a total of ten years in the U.S. House of Representatives; his son again, who also bore the name of Nathan Fellows Dixon, following in the footsteps of his grandfather and was from 1889 to 1895 U.S. Senator.