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About John Adams Dix
John Adams Dix was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the 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.
Everything about John Adams Dix →- Occupation
- politician, military officer, lawyer, diplomat
- Position held
- United States Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, Postmaster of New York City, member of the New York State Assembly
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 24, 1798, 1798
- Died
- April 21, 1879, 1879