Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician (died 1946)

Thomas Dixon Jr.

American Baptist minister and writer (1864–1946)

Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. was an American polymath: a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker. Dixon wrote two best-selling novels, The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of…