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John Adams Dix was born on July 24, 1798 in Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Timothy Dix, merchant and Abigail Wilkins.
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John Adams Dix was born on July 24, 1798 in Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Timothy Dix, merchant and Abigail Wilkins.
He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and the College of Montreal.
He was commissioned in the army at 14, served in the battle of Lundy's Lane during the War of 1812, and remained in the service until 1828, reading law on the side. Dix became in 1828 a land agent and lawyer at Cooperstown, New York, and soon was also the Jacksonian leader of the county. With his appointment as adjutant general (1830 - 1833), he became an inner member of the Albany Regency, the Democratic group led by Martin Van Buren that then controlled New York State. He served also (1833 - 1839) as New York's secretary of state, making important contributions as superintendent (ex officio) of the common schools and in the setting up of the state's geological survey in 1836. In 1845, Dix was chosen a member of the U. S. Senate and became at once Washington leader of the Barnburner Democrats, who insisted upon free soil in the federal territories. In the closing months (1861) of President James Buchanan's administration, he was appointed secretary of the treasury. Subsequently, although no longer highly forceful, Dix held administrative posts in the Union army, was President Andrew Johnson's envoy to France (1866 - 1869), and was in 1872 elected governor of New York by the Republicans.
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Albany Regency
He was a charming combination of soldierliness, scholarship, and upright public leadership.
Quotes from others about the person
In the words of Van Buren, Dix was ". .. a beautiful speaker, [with a] fine voice, [and] imposing manner. .. . "
In 1826 Dix married Catherine Morgan.