Dixon, Archibald
lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born April 2, 1802, in Caswell county, N.
C. In 1830 he was a representative in the legislature, and in 1836 in the state senate. He was again in the lower house in 1841; and in 1843 was elected lieutenantgovernor of Kentucky. He was a member of the United States senate from 1852 to 1855, having been elected to fill a vacancy. He died April 23, 1876, in Henderson, Ky.
DIXON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, comic singer, was born about 1808. He first appeared in 1827 as a comedian in small parts at the amphitheatre in Albany, N. Y. Thence he went to New York, Philadelphia and other large cities, singing his famous songs, The Coal-Black Rose and Zip Coon, to admiring throngs.
He died in March, 1861, in New Orleans, La.
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