James Dixon (August 5, 1814 – March 27, 1873) was a United States representative and Senator from Connecticut.

He declined the nomination for governor of Connecticut in 1854, and was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1854.

[5] He supported Horatio Seymour in the 1868 United States Presidential Election and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in 1868, primarily because he had been the first Republican member of the Senate to oppose the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

Appointed Minister to Russia in 1869, Dixon declined and engaged in literary pursuits and extensive traveling until his death in Hartford on March 27, 1873.

[6] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress