Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Sherwood Dixon a Dixon, Lee County, Illinois, ɗan Henry S. da Margaret Casey Dixon. Shi ne babban jikan wanda ya kafa Dixon, "Uba" John Dixon. Dixon ya kammala karatun digiri na 1920 na Jami'ar Notre Dame, tsohon soja na Yaƙin Duniya na I kuma brigadier janar a cikin Illinois National Guard. Dixon ya kasance memba na Illinois Democratic State Central Committee (1938), wakili ne a 1952 Democratic National Convention da kuma wakili mai maye gurbin 1940 da 1956
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