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DIXON, Henry Aldous (1890-1967)

Republican of Utah

1st congressional district

Served in House 1955-1961

Total roll-call votes cast: 510

Biography

Representative from Utah; born in Provo, Utah County, Utah, June 29, 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1914, from the University of Chicago in 1917, and from the University of Southern California in 1937; instructor at Weber College 1914-1918, president in 1919 and 1920 and 1937-1953; superintendent of Provo city schools 1920-1924 and 1932-1937; managing vice president of Farmers & Merchants Bank 1924-1932; member of President's Commission on Higher Education 1946-1948; member, board of directors, Salt Lake Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 1945-1951; director, Association of Junior Colleges, 1950-1954; president of Utah State University at Logan from August 1953 to December 1954; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1961); did not seek renomination in 1960; instructor at Brigham Young University until 1965; died in Ogden, Utah, January 22, 1967; interment in Washington Heights Memorial Park.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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