Dr. Richard H. Dixon, Jr., was born October 3, 1923 to the late Beulah and Rev. Richard H. Dixon, Jr.  The only son of three children.

He attended Public Schools in Dallas, Texas and Fort Way ne, Indiana.  He received a B.A. Degree from Bishop College, Marshall, Texas; Bachelor of Theology Degree from the American Theological Seminary, Nashville, Tenn.; Bachelor Degree of Divinity from Colgate Seminary, Rochester, New York; D.D. Degree from the University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; Candidate for Doctorate Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ

PASTORAL RECORD: Rev. Dixon was pastor of three churches, First Baptist Church, Lackawanna New York for four years; Historical Trinity Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan for ten years; Macedonia Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, New York for forty-one years.  He was called to preach and was licensed in Kansas City Missouri, in the year 1946.

ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS: He served as President of the Mount Vernon Council of Churches; Westchester Urban League; Founder and Past President of the United Black Clergy of Mount Vernon; Founder and Past President of the Westchester Christian Leadership Conference; he had the honor of being selected, with 25 outstanding people throughout the United States, to be a part of the group to accompany Dr. Martin Luther King to Oslo, Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  The People’s Republic of China invited him, with 17 other educators and Religious Leaders, as a guest of the Chinese Government to Tour, Study and Exchange Views (the summer of 1980).  He is Second Deputy Commissioner of the City of Mount Vernon; Head of the Chaplaincy program of Mount Vernon Police Department; He has been honored to give Opening Prayer at United States Congress in Washington, D. C.; He has also served as Chaplain for the New York State Senate and Assembly.  He has received many awards and honors.

  REVEREND DIXON is married to the former Earnestene Wright.  They have three children; Richard III, Sonya and Lori; one daughter-in-law, Dydiines (Dina), two sons-in-law, Mark Stephens and George McClendon; two granddaughters, Styler and Kayla and three grandsons, James, Dabnus and George, Jr.  He also has a son Carl and grandson, Cameron.

Rev. Dixon is Pastor Emeritus of the Macedonia Baptist Church.  He served forty-one years as Pastor of this great Church, and on December 31, 1999 retired as its Pastor.  While at Macedonia, a seventy-five unit Senior Citizen Complex was built, in 1975; The Macedonia Community Center as purchased in 1979; the Collin Allen Day Care Center was established in 1982, where it is presently housed in the Macedonia Center.

FORTY-ONE YEARS as pastor, various new organizations were formed.  The Macedonia Federal Credit Union in July, 1960 which has served the membership financially to help build and buy homes, upgrading the community; send children to school for higher education, etc.  Accepting, in 1988, to take that giant step, five years ago, Macedonia broke ground, for the first phase of an eight million-dollar expansion.  The first phase, which includes a sanctuary that seats fifteen hundred worshippers, a ten room education department that house a library, nursery, credit union office, music room and individual meeting facilities, was completed in 1996.

AT PRESENT, Rev. Dixon serves as Interim Pastor of the Second Canaan Baptist Church, New York City.