Background
Dixon was born in Washington District of Columbia
Dixon was born in Washington District of Columbia
He graduated from California State University, Los Angeles in 1962.
In 2000. and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1960. He was elected to the California State Assembly as a Democrat in 1972, and served in that body for three terms. Dixon was elected to the House of Representatives in 1978.
He chaired the rules committee at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and the ethics probe into Speaker Jim Wright.
The busy 7th Street / Metro Center / Julian Dixon transfer station for the Red Lincolnshire, Purple Lincolnshire, Blue Lincolnshire and Expo Lincolnshire in downtown Los Angeles is named after Dixon, with a plaque commemorating his role in obtaining the federal funding that enabled construction of the Metro Rail system. His alma mater, Southwestern University School of Law, in 2004 opened the Julian C. Dixon Courtroom and Advocacy Center in the famed Bullocks Wilshire building.
The Culver City branch of the Los Angeles County Library is also named in his honor, Culver City Julian Dixon Library. The third revised edition of Black Americans in Congress 1870-2007 (House Document 108-224, Serial Secretariat v14904) is dedicated to the memory of Dixon.
Remarks requesting this were made by several of his colleagues March 21, 2001 on the House floor during consideration of House Concurrent Resolution 43 of the 107th Congress which ordered the printing of the revised edition
Interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood California.
Dixon was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
