"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" as well as other events. Post gubernatorial years After Dixon left office in 1943, he returned to his corporate law practice and began a private firm called Bowers, Dixon, Dunn, and McDowell in Birmingham. He was a lobbyist for conservative causes in the state legislature. He spent much of his time lobbying for the right-to-work law. In 1948, former governor Dixon was temporary chairman and keynote speaker at the Birmingham convention of the States' Rights Democratic Party that nominated Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright as their presidential ticket. In the 1960 United States presidential election, Dixon was the highest vote-getter for a slate of unpledged Democratic electors that chose Harry F. Byrd and Strom Thurmond over John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Dixon died in Birmingham on October 11, 1965. References External links Feldman, Glenn A. "Frank M. Dixon, 1939-1943." Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2001. (p. 185-89). Barnard, William D. Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics, 1942-1950. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 1974. 1892 births 1965 deaths American military personnel of World War I American amputees American politicians with disabilities Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) Alabama lawyers Governors of Alabama Alabama Dixiecrats Shot-down aviators Politicians from Oakland, California Democratic Party governors of Alabama 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American lawyers Old Right (United States)