James M. Dickson, sometimes written as James M. Dixon, was a minister, farm owner, and state legislator in Mississippi.
He also served as a chancery clerk and on the county school board.
He became a Methodist Episcopal Church minister and was living in Mississippi prior to the American Civil War.
General Adelbert Ames appointed him to the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors in 1869.
He testified before a congressional committee about the Democrat Party's campaign of violence and intimidation during the 1875 election in Mississippi (Redeemers).