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John James Dix Full Name: John James Dix, Jr. Date of birth: March 27, 1826 Date of death: March 24, 1905 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 83 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd (1)   Democrat Benavides / Duval   Duval, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Zapata, Encinal (1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches 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. Military Service Notes 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. 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. Photographs Photograph. J.J. Dix, 22nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 22nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, north wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 22nd R.S. - 1891 Federal Relations   Irrigation   Labor   Public Lands and Land Office   Representation and Apportionment on Congressional Districts   Revenue and Taxation   State Asylums   Stock and Stock Raising

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