Joseph A. Dixon

Joseph Andrew Dixon (June 3, 1879 – July 4, 1942) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1937 to 1939.

Early life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dixon attended St. Patrick's School, Hughes High School, and Xavier University in Cincinnati.

Early business career He served as clerk in a mercantile store 1893–1900. He engaged in retail clothing business in Anderson, Indiana, Hartford City, Indiana, and Cincinnati. He was also a manager and owner of amateur and professional baseball teams and active in young men's welfare work.

Congress Group of legislators leaves White House after asking Franklin D. Roosevelt for $80,000,000 for flood control in Ohio Valley, March 7, 1938. front: l-r Joseph A. Dixon, James G. Polk, Eugene B. Crowe, G W Johnson, Lawrence E. Imhoff, rear l-r : Peter J. De Muth, Kent E. Keller, Brent Spence. Dixon was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress.

Later career and death He resumed his former business pursuits in Cincinnati until his death there on July 4, 1942. He was interred in St. Joseph's Cemetery.