Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John James Dix

Full Name: John James Dix, Jr.
Birth date: March 27, 1826
Death date: March 24, 1905

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .

John J. Dix, Ranger Rolls - Statehood, and Captain John J. Dix, Civil War Index - Abstracts of Muster Rolls. Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900. Ancestry.com .
DIX, JOHN JAMES, JR. (1826-1910). Handbook of Texas Online .
Portrait and biographical sketch, John J. Dix, pp. 335-336. Born 3/27/1826 in Dixboro, Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory, married Cynthia J. McNeill at Fort Merrill, Live Oak County, on 10/21/1856. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Company K, Colonel J.M. Norris' frontier regiment, 3/8/1862 for one year. 1st Sergeant in local company to defend abandoned country west of the Nueces River, September 1863-June 1864. Confederate States Army, Captain, Acting Assistant Quartermaster, and Acting Assistant Commissary Officer in expeditionary forces under Colonel John S. Ford to reoccupy Brownsville, serving until 5/26/1865. 2nd Lieutenant, Captain Ford's company during Cortina difficulties. Served in army of occupation under General Zachariah Taylor, 1845-1849. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
"John James Dix: Texas Ranger and Confederate Soldier during the Civil War," by Dan R. Manning. Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Waco, TX, 2017. Texas Ranger Dispatch Magazine 2008.