Dix

Dix, JOHN ADAMS, American statesman and soldier, born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, 24th July 1798, was appointed cadet in 1812, and lieutenant in 1814, and while on the staff of General Jacob Brown studied law, afterwards being admitted to the Washington bar. In 1828, with the rank of captain, he resigned his commission; in 1830 he was appointed adjutant-general, and from 1833 to 1840 was secretary of state and superintendent of schools for the state of New York. He was for four years a democratic United States senator, and secretary of the treasury from 1861 to the end of Buchanan's administration. At the outbreak of the civil war he raised seventeen regiments, and in July 1861, with the rank of major-general of volunteers, he took command of the Department of Maryland, where he rendered effective service to the cause of the Union; from 1863 to the close of the war, he commanded the Department of the East. He was appointed minister to France in 1866, and elected governor of New York by the Republicans in 1872. He died in New York city, 21st April 1879. His memoirs were published (1883) by his eldest son, the Rev. Dr Morgan Dix.