Irma George Dixon

Irma George Dixon (1911 – ) was a Maryland educator and politician. In 1958 she and Verda Freeman Welcome became the first two African American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly.

Early life Irma George was born on 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Edward and Lillian George. She attended Baltimore public schools then Coppin Normal School before earning a B.S. in English at Morgan State College. She began her career as a teacher in Baltimore public schools, where she taught elementary and junior high for fifteen years. A Democrat, Dixon served from 1960 through re-election for the 1964 term, until her death in 1965 (she missed the final session because she was hospitalized). She is buried at Arbutus Memorial Park. Her husband predeceased her, in March 1963. She was survived by two brothers, Edward George and Benjamin Thornton, both of whom were then living in Washington, D.C.