Dixon, Joseph Moore (1867-1934)

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Joseph M. Dixon to Jane Addams, [September], 1912

Jane Addams et al. to Raymond and Margaret Dreier Robins, November 13, 1912

Joseph M. Dixon to Jane Addams, November 22, 1912

Plan of Work for Carrying Out the Pledges and Principles of the Progressive Party, November 26, 1912

Joseph M. Dixon to Jane Addams, November 30, 1912

Nominating Speech for Theodore Roosevelt, August 7, 1912

Abigail Bass to Jane Addams, August 10, 1912

Alexander Jeffrey McKelway to Jane Addams, October 5, 1912

Joseph Medill McCormick to Chauncey Dewey, November 19, 1912

Theodore Roosevelt to Amos Pinchot, December 5, 1912

Oscar K. Davis to Jane Addams, July 17, 1913

Amos Pinchot to Jane Addams, May 22, 1914

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Birth Date

1867-07-31

Death Date

1934-05-22

Birthplace

Snow Camp, North Carolina

Biographical Text

Joseph M. Dixon attended Earlham College and Guilford College, and after graduating in 1889 he moved to Missoula, Montana, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1892. From 1893 to 1895 he served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Missoula County, and from 1895 to 1897 he served as prosecuting attorney. Through his law career and real estate investments, Dixon became wealthy, and in 1900 he bought the Missoulian, a local newspaper. Also in 1900, Dixon served in the Montana House of Representatives. In 1902 and 1904 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he introduced and passed a bill that opened the Flathead Indian Reservation to white settlement. In 1906 he was elected to the Senate. In 1912, he became the head of Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party, though he did not win reelection to the Senate. He was elected the governor of Montana in 1919, and dealt with agricultural depression, the state deficit, and fought the Anaconda Copper Company. In 1929, Dixon was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and in 1930 he was involved in a project to develop water power on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Dixon married Caroline M. Worden in 1896. They had seven children together. Dixon died in 1934.