Biography: Joe Price Dixon, Caddo Parish La.
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JOE PRICE DIXSON

JOE PRICE DIXSON, Shreveport's Commissioner of Finance, was born in Navarro
County, Texas, August 21, 1878, the youngest of ten children from parents
who settled in Texas in 1846. His father was the late A. J. Dixson, of Ft.
Worth, served in the Confederate army, and was also a Forty-niner, having
headed two successful expeditions to California where major operations in
gold mining were engaged in during the early days of the gold rush. In
1886, the family moved to Ft. Worth, where Joe Price Dixson received his
public school education. In 1900 Mr. Dixson began his railroading career
with the Rock Island Railway as telegraph operator, and subsequently with
the Frisco in Oklahoma, the Denver & Rio Grande and other western lines in
Colorado and California. His longest period of service was with the Texas &
Pacific Railway, having been located at Dallas, Texas, eight years, after
which he was transferred to Shreveport as Local Freight Agent, in charge of
station service and terminal operations. After three years and a half in
that capacity, he was appointed General Agent in charge of freight and
passenger traffic and transportation for the Shreveport Division. Leaving
the Railway service in 1921, Mr. Dixson became engaged in the Insurance
business, and was the successful district manager for the Praetorians of
Dallas, Texas. On assuming his official duties with the City of Shreveport,
following his election at the regular municipal election, he gave up the
insurance business in November, 1922. As Commissioner of Finance, he
handles all the finances of the city, and ranks under the commission form
of government next to that of Mayor and is Ex-Officio Vice Mayor presiding
in the absence of the Mayor, In 1926, Mr. Dixson became a candidate for
reelection, leading his ticket and being returned to office by a splendid
majority of 6,414 votes out of a total of 7,490.

Mr. Dixson is a member of the First Methodist Church of Shreveport. Also a
Scottish Rite Mason, holds a high office in Mithro Grotto, Modern Order of
Veiled Prophets of the Exalted Realm, a charter member of the Shreveport
Kiwanis Club organized in 1921, served as president of that organization in
1927 and as Governor of the Louisiana-Mississippi District in 1928.

On December 11, 1901, in Dallas, Texas, he married Miss Margery Nance, the
daughter of the late S. A. Nance, president of the S. A. Nance Company, one
of the leading wholesale shoe industries of the south at that time.

Mr. Dixson was elected Governor over the Louisiana-Mississippi District of
the Kiwanis at the New Orleans Convention, effective January 1, 1928.

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From Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry, 1928,
Page 347
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