Jonathan Dixon (judge)

Jonathan Dixon (July 6, 1839 – May 21, 1906) was an American jurist and Republican party politician from New Jersey.

His father, also named Jonathan Dixon, came to the United States in 1848 and was followed in 1850 by his family, settling in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

[2] In February 1880 the socialist leader Joseph Patrick McDonnell, editor of the Labor Standard, was tried for libel after publishing a letter from a brick maker who said of the Clark & Van Blarcom brickyard that the men were overworked and starved, and housed in places no better than pigsties.

[2] McDonnell used the Labor Standard to attack Dixon as anti-labor and anti-union, and threw his support behind Leon Abbett, giving a useful boost to the Democratic candidate.

Abbett also criticized Dixon for handing down Supreme Court rulings that were perceived as anti-labor.