Sherwood Dixon was born in Dixon , Lee County , Illinois , the son of Henry S. and Margaret Casey Dixon . He was the great grandson of the founder of Dixon , " Father " John Dixon . Dixon was a 1920 graduate of the University of Notre Dame , a veteran of World War I and a Brigadier General in the Illinois National Guard . Dixon was a member of the Illinois Democratic State Central Committee ( 1938 ) , a delegate to the 1952 Democratic National Convention and an alternate delegate to the 1940 and 1956 Democratic national conventions
1952 Democratic National Convention
1952 Democratic National Convention
Sherwood Dixon