William Dixon (State Representative)

William Dixon was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Dixon was born on October 27, 1808 in Beverley, England. He later owned a farm in Exeter, New York, before renting one in Buena Vista, Richland County, Wisconsin, and eventually owning another in Ithaca, Wisconsin.[1]

Political career

Dixon was a member of the Assembly during the 1859 and 1872 sessions.[2] Other positions he held include Chairman of the Town Board (similar to city council) of Ithaca. He was a Republican.

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gollark: While there are quantum-cryptography-proof cryptographic schemes around, they're barely in the early stages of being standardized, not really deployed in any common protocols yet, not reviewed as thoroughly as existing primitives, and generally not very production-ready.
gollark: Which allows factoring things faster, and also apparently discrete logarithm problems somehow.
gollark: Quantum computers can apparently cause problems for all widely deployed asymmetric cryptography via Shor's algorithm.
gollark: It apparently makes brute force take O(sqrt n) time somehow.

References
  1. "Chapter 7. - Politics and Official Honors". USGenWeb. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  2. Lawrence S. Barish, ed. (2007). State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2007 - 2008. p. 134.
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