| Arrington Dixon | |
| Birth Name: | Arrington Dixon |
| Birth Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Office: | 2nd Chair of the Council of the District of Columbia |
| Term Start: | 1979 |
| Term End: | 1983 |
| Predecessor: | Sterling Tucker |
| Successor: | David A. Clarke |
| Office1: | Member of the Council of the District of Columbia from Ward 4 |
| Term Start1: | 1975 |
| Term End1: | 1979 |
| Predecessor1: | Position established |
| Successor1: | Charlene Drew Jarvis |
| Office2: | Member of the Council of the District of Columbia from the at-large district |
| Term Start2: | August 1997 |
| Term End2: | December 15, 1997 |
| Predecessor2: | Linda Cropp |
| Successor2: | David Catania |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Howard University, George Washington Law School[1] |
Arrington Dixon is an American politician who is a former Chair and Member of the Council of the District of Columbia of Washington, D.C.
Dixon was born in Anacostia in Washington, D.C., to James and Sally Dixon.[2]
In November 1974, Dixon was chosen to represent Ward 4 when voters elected the first members of the Council of the District of Columbia, the legislature of the city's new home rule government.[3] The initial term for the Ward 4 seat, like those for half the council seats, was only 2 years, to provide for staggered council elections in later years,[4] but in 1976 Dixon was reelected to a full four-year term.[3]
In 1978, council chairman Sterling Tucker ran for mayor rather than seeking reelection.[5] Dixon, who was halfway through his Ward 4 term, decided to run for Chair of the Council and won. He served 4 years. In 1982, Dixon ran for re-election, but he was defeated in the Democratic primary by David A. Clarke.[5]
Dixon was later appointed by Mayor Marion Barry to serve as a public member of the National Capital Planning Commission.
More than a decade later, Dixon returned to the council as an at-large member for a few months in 1997 when he was chosen in August by the District of Columbia Democratic State Committee to replace Linda Cropp, who had vacated her at-large seat to become chairman.[6] The appointment lasted only until a December special election, in which he was defeated by then-Republican David Catania.[7] Catania was sworn in on December 15, 1997.[8]
In 1966, he married Sharon Pratt Kelly, and they had daughters Aimee and Drew. His daughters were born in 1968 and 1970.[9] The couple divorced in 1982 after sixteen years of marriage.[10]