Frank Murray Dixon papers 1938-1981

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Frank Murray Dixon papers 1938-1981

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000439

Family correspondence, newsclippings, financial records, and photos of this Alabama governor and his family.

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W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965

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Dixon was born 1892 July 25 to Frank and Launa Murray Dixon in Oakland, Cal. In 1906 he entered Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H.; then attended Columbia University for one term. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1916 with an LL.B., and was admitted to the Ala. bar in 1917. That same year he entered the U.S. Army and fought overseas in World War I. He was attached to the French Army as an aerial observer. On 1918 July 21 he was wounded, which caused the amputation of hi...