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For more than two and a half decades, Dixon represented the state’s 25th Senate district, which covers Montgomery, Elmore and Crenshaw counties in the southeastern part of the state.
A Republican, he was first elected to the state’s House of Representatives in 1978 and then was elected to the state’s Senate in 1983, where he remained until he retired a decade ago.
Dixon’s career in local government stretches back to 1975, when he was a Montgomery City Council member.
“He devoted his life to service to this great city,” Perry Hooper, a former state representative and current member of the Republican State Executive Committee, wrote in an Alabama Daily News op-ed, adding that he was “still in shock” over Dixon’s death.