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Former Tennessee lawmaker Roscoe Dixon dead at 71

Updated: 12:44 PM CDT April 16, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Former Tennessee lawmaker Roscoe Dixon has died. He was 71-years-old.
Javier Bailey and Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland both announced Dixon s passing Friday on social media.
Sorry to hear that former state Senator Roscoe Dixon has passed. He was always gracious and encouraging to me, including two years ago when I knocked on his door campaigning. He invited us in for 30 minutes of reminiscing a great memory today. pic.twitter.com/eoJKHglvQt Mayor Jim Strickland (@MayorMemphis) April 16, 2021
Dixon served in the Tennessee Senate from 1994 to 2005. In 2010 he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, where he served until 2017. ....

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Roscoe Dixon, longtime Tennessee state lawmaker, dies at 71

Roscoe Dixon, longtime Tennessee state lawmaker, dies at 71
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A longtime former Tennessee state lawmaker has died.
Family members tell us former Democratic State Sen. Roscoe Dixon died last night. He was 71.
The former state senator and state representative spent decades at the Capitol in Nashville representing Memphis. He was one of about a dozen state and local lawmakers caught up in the Tennessee Waltz Operation, accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes in the early 2000s.
Dixon was convicted of bribery in 2006 and spent several years in prison. ....

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Roscoe Dixon dies: Memphis lawmaker was caught up in Tennessee Waltz

Roscoe Dixon, a Memphis Democrat who was prominent in state politics for more than a decade before his 2006 conviction in an FBI corruption sting, and who later advocated for restoration of voting rights, died at a local hospital Thursday. He was 71.
Dixon s sister confirmed his death, which was attributed to a lengthy, undisclosed illness.
Former mayor of Shelby County and then Memphis, A C Wharton, who had been friends with Dixon since 1973 and who had hired him at the county after Dixon resigned his state senate seat in 2005, said he personified public service. And it was Dixon who borrowed a pickup truck to help the Whartons move to Memphis in 1973, Wharton said. ....

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