John Adams Dix - Later Career

Later Career

He was United States Minister to France from 1866 to 1869.

He was Governor of New York from 1873 to 1874, elected on the Republican ticket in November 1872, but defeated for re-election in November 1874. He suffered another defeat when he ran for the Mayor of New York City in 1876.

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