Talk:John Adams Dix

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Is this really the Union Pacific President?

Is this guy really Durant's Union Pacific figurehead president (John A. Dix)? The biography mentions nothing about trains other than (wishful?) references. His biography would indicate he would have been otherwise occupied during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Thanks. Americasroof 01:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll answer my own question -- he's the guy. Thanks to be references! Americasroof 02:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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Scrambled sentence

'Considered too old for field command, although some believe Dix's most distinguished contribution during the war was the suppression of the New York Draft Riots in July 1863, the rioting had already subsided by the time he replaced General John E. Wool.' Valetude (talk) 16:18, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

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John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. This line engraving of Dix was produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

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