Sunday, November 24, 2019

The Dixon Family Never Lost an Election



Joe Dixon (Sr.) served in many voluntary and stipended roles to do his share for the community. One of these was to be a road supervisor, checking on the local roads and helping to keep them relatively functional.

A new law created Road Commissioners for each district. In this case, Dixon Precinct also served as the “road district”. It was given the designation District 7 within the county. I’m not sure whether there was any taxing or spending authority or whether the commissioner was even able to put a proposal in front of the road district’s voters to do a road improvement project.

In any case, Joe Dixon (Sr.) led the pack on Election Day, beating 5 other candidates. We’re undefeated! It leads to a question.... has anyone else in the family ever run for public office? Anyone who dealt with public funds had to post a bond. This was done, back in the day, by lining up friends who would commit to reimbursing the county if you absconded with any money.

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