Archibald Dixon, Sr.

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1802-04-02

Death Date

1876-04-23

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"Archibald Dixon, Sr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000848, (accessed July 7, 2025).

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Henderson, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and planter. Redhouse, North Carolina, native. Married to Elizabeth R. Cabell Dixon. Father of Rebecca Dixon, Susan B. Dixon, Archibald Dixon Jr., Henry Dixon, and Joseph C. Dixon. Married to Susan Peachy Bullitt Dixon. William Dixon, Evilin Dixon, Kate Dixon, and Willie Dixon. Moved to Henderson County, Kentucky, in 1805. Admitted to the Henderson bar in 1824. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1830 and 1841. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1836. Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1844 to 1848. Henderson County delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention. Attorney and planter in Henderson in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in 1850. Candidate for Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the Whig Part ticket in 1851. Member of the Senate of the United States from 1852 to 1855. Attorney and planter in Henderson from 1855 to 1876. Owned 124 enslaved persons in 1860.

“Dixon, Archibald, (1802-1876),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000367 (accessed March 1, 2017); Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), p. 176, 181; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 275; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 471; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, Division 1, p. 51; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division, 43-44; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, Ward 1, p. 20; Find A Grave, "Archibald Dixon (1802-1876)," Memorial #7092225, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7092225 (accessed August 22, 2017).

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