 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Sherwood Dixon akaberekerwa muDixon, Lee County, Illinois, mwanakomana waHenry S. naMargaret Casey Dixon. Akanga ari muzukuru mukuru womuvambi weDixon, Baba John Dixon. Dixon akanga ari 1920 akapedza kudzidza paYunivhesiti yeNotre Dame, aimbova murwi weHondo Yenyika I uye brigadier general muIllinois National Guard. Dixon aiva nhengo yeDemocratic State Central Committee yeIllinois 1938, nhume ku1952 Democratic National Conventionuye nhume yokuchinjana kumisangano yenyika yeDemocratic muna 1940 na 1956. 