Frank Dixon

Frank Murray Dixon (born July 25, 1892 in Oakland, California; died October 11, 1965 in Birmingham) was Governor of Alabama from 1939 to 1943. An attorney allied with the "Big Mules", wealthy cotton planters and industrialists, Dixon favored business interests and opposed progressive politics. His opposition to the Democratic Party's national Civil Rights platform led him to help launch the States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats).

Dixon's father was a Baptist minister and lecturer and his uncle was Thomas Dixon, later author of The Clansman. Though born in California, Dixon grew up in Virginia and was educated there and in Washington D.C. He matriculated from the Phillips Exeter Preparatory School in New Hampshire and earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University in New York, New York and a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1916.

After graduating, Dixon took a position with Frank White's law firm in Birmingham and married Greene County native Juliet Perry.