Nathan F. Dixon II

Nathan F. Dixon II

Nathan Fellows Dixon was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. He was the son of Nathan F. Dixon, and the father of Nathan F. Dixon, III.

Biography

He was born in Westerly, Rhode Island on May 1, 1812. He attended Plainfield (Connecticut) Academy, and graduated from Brown University in 1833. He later pursued the study of law at the Cambridge (Massachusetts) and New Haven (Connecticut) Law Schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Westerly. He also engaged in banking.

He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 1841–1849, 1851–1854, 1858–1862, and 1871–1877. He was appointed a member of the Rhode Island Governor’s council in 1842. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1871). He served as chairman on the Committee on Commerce (Forty-first Congress). He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1870.

He was elected delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866. He then resumed the practice of law and banking, and died in Westerly on April 11, 1881. His interment is in River Bend Cemetery.

References

United States Congress. "Nathan F. Dixon (id: D000375)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

Nathan F. Dixon at Find a Grave

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Benjamin Babock Thurston	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district 1849–1851	Succeeded by Benjamin Babock Thurston
Preceded by George H. Browne	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district 1863–1871	Succeeded by James M. Pendleton
Legal offices
Preceded by Wingate Hayes	United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island 1877 – 1885	Succeeded by David Baker

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Commerce and Manufactures (1795–1819)	Goodhue Swanwick Livingston S. Smith Mitchill Crowninshield Mumford Newton

Commerce (1819–1893)	Newton Cambreleng Sutherland F. Smith Cushman Curtis Kennedy Holmes McClelland Hunt McLane Seymour Fuller Washburne Cochrane Washburne Eliot Dixon Shellabarger Wheeler Hereford Ward Reagan Page Reagan Clardy Baker

Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1893–1981)	Wise Hepburn Mann Adamson Sims Esch Winslow Parker Rayburn Lea Wolverton Crosser Wolverton Priest Harris Staggers

Energy and Commerce (1981–present)	Dingell Bliley Tauzin Barton Dingell Waxman Upton Walden (Designate)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 19048933 LCCN: n2002126314 US Congress: D000375

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