Henry Aldous Dixon
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Henry Aldous Dixon (June 29, 1890 - January 22, 1967) was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born in Provo, Utah County, Utah, Dixon attended the public schools until high school, when he attended private Brigham Young High School, from which he graduated in 1909. He 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. He served as member of President's Commission on Higher Education 1946-1948. He served as member of the board of directors, Salt Lake Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 1945-1951. He served as director, Association of Junior Colleges from 1950 to 1954. He served as president of Utah State University at Logan from August 1953 to December 1954.
Dixon was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1961). He did not seek renomination in 1960. Instructor at Brigham Young University until 1965. He died in Ogden, Utah, January 22, 1967. He was interred in Washington Heights Memorial Park.
