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September 1856 and signed by John Adams Dix. In 1853 Dix was president of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad. He was appointed Postmaster of New York City and served from 1860 to 1861. In addition to his military and public duties, Dix was the president of the Union Pacific from 1863 to 1868 during construction of the First transcontinental ...
Jul 20, 1998 · John Adams Dix (born July 24, 1798, Boscawen, N.H., U.S.—died April 21, 1879, New York City) was a political leader and U.S. Army officer who, as secretary of the treasury of the United States (1861), issued to a treasury officer in New Orleans the famous order: “If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.”
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John Adams Dix. Pre-Civil War. General John Adams Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire in 1798. In his youth, he was educated by his father; he spent a year at Phillips Exeter Academy, and then went to the College of Montreal in 1810. His time at university was cut short by outbreak of the War of 1812. At the age of fourteen, Dix desired to ...
John Adams Dix was born in 1798 in Boscawen, New Hampshire. He attended Philips Exeter Academy and the University of Montreal (Canada).Dix served in the War of 1812 and remained in the military until 1828, when he retired with the rank of captain. During that time, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C. (1820).
John Adams Dix was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill.
John Adams Dix. BORN: July 24, 1798 Boscawen, New Hampshire. DIED: April 21, 1879 (age 80) New York City, New York. POLITICAL PARTY: Democratic (Before 1872) Republican (1872–1879) CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 1813-1828: U.S. Army 1830: Moved to Albany, New York 1831-1833: Adjutant General of New York 1833-1839: Secretary of State of New York 1842:
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JOHN ADAMS DIX (1798-1879), American soldier and political leader, was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, on the 24th of July 1798. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in1810-1811and at the College of Montreal in 1811-1812, and as a boy took part in the War of 1812, becoming a second lieutenant in March 1814.
