Alamance County NcArchives Biographies.....Dixon, Joseph Moore 
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Source: Cyclopedia
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Joseph Moore Dixon

US senator - was born at Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina, July 31, 
1867, son of Hugh W. and Flora A. (Murchison) Dixon. His first American 
ancestor, Thomas Dixon, was an English Quaker, who emigrated to Pennsylvania 
with a party headed by William Penn, and his great-great-grandfather, Simon 
Dixon, was the brother-in-law of Herman Husbands who led the colonists of 
central North Carolina in the revolt against Gov. Tryon in 1771. 

His father, Hugh W. Dixon, was a manufacturer of cotton machinery. The son was 
educated at Sylvan Academy and at Guilford College, North Carolina. 

Upon attaining his majority, he determined to go West, and in 1881 settled at 
Missoula, Montana, which became his permanent residence. In the following year 
he was admitted to the bar of that state, and at once entered upon an active 
and lucrative practice.

He served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Missoula County during 1893-95, 
and as prosecuting attorney during 1895-97 and a member of the Montana 
legislature in 1900. He was a congressman-at-large from Montana during 1902-
06. Meanwhile, in 1904, he was a delegate to the Republican national 
convention held in Chicago. 

At the expiration of his second term in congress he declined a reelection, and 
announced his candidacy for the national senate. He was elected in January, 
1907, to succeed Sen. William A. Clark, for the term expiring March 3, 1913. 

Senator Dixon was married March 12, 1896, to Carrie M., daughter of Frank L. 
Worden of Missoula, and has four daughters: Virginia, Florence, Dorothy and 
Mary Dixon.

Additional Comments:
Source:
The National Cyclopedia 
of American Biography
Volume XIV
1910

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