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JULIAN C. DIXON
28TH Congressional District,
California

Julian C. Dixon was elected to the House of Representatives from the 28th Congressional District of Los Angeles, California, on November 7, 1978.

Mr. Dixon serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee as the 25th ranking member. In March 1980, Mr. Dixon, a freshman Member of the 96th Congress, was elected Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Congressman Dixon was the first freshman legislator in the history of the Congress to chair a House Appropriations Subcommittee. Mr. Dixon also serves on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foriegn [[Foreign]] Operations which is responsible for financing all foreign and measures including military and economic assistance, as well as formulating progressive programs in underdeveloped nations.

As a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Dixon currently serves as Treasurer. In addition, he served as Chairman of the 1980 and 1981 Congressional Black Caucus dinners.

Congressman Dixon's legislative priorities have focused on a wide array of issues ranging from domestic social concerns to African/Caribbean affairs. Bills sponsored by Mr. Dixon have included measures to extend the Voting Rights Act and the Legal Services Corporation; a bill to provide federal assistance to victims of domestic violence; bills to close tax loopholes and repeal the "marriage penalty;" and resolutions expressing concern for the plight of African refugees, and the course of U.S. policy toward South Africa. His work on the Foreign Operations Subcommittee has succeeded in strengthening U.S. participation in the Sahel Development Program in West Africa and the African Development Bank as well as sounder development policies in Haiti. Mr. Dixon's efforts have also centered on issues affecting his urban district. He was successful in obtaining a federal study on the Baldwin Hills area in Los Angeles, an area nationally recognized for its disastrous mudslides. In addition, Mr. Dixon has been a leading supporter of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and of improved mass transit in Southern California.

From 1973 until his election to Congress, Mr. Dixon represented the 49th District in the California State Assembly. In 1973, he was elected Chairman of the Assembly Democratic Caucus, the first freshman Chairman of the Assembly Public Employees and Retirement Committee and was a member of the Assembly Committees on Criminal Justice, Ways and Means, and Education. His special assignments included Chairman of the Assembly Select Committee on Juvenile Violence. In 1979, he was the recipient of the "Outstanding Legislative Program" award from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and also, in the same year, received the Sugar Ray Robinson Foundation's "Man of the Year" Golden Glove Award for outstanding service to youth in the community. 

Congressman Dixon was born in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1934. He graduated from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles in 1953, received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from California State University at Los Angeles in 1962, and was awarded an LL.B. degree from Southwestern University in Lost Angeles in 1967. Mr. Dixon served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1960, attaining the rank of sergeant.

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