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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaRobert Nelson Cornelius NIX, Sr.
(1898-1987)
NIX, Robert Nelson Cornelius,
Sr., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Orangeburg,
S.C., August 9, 1898; graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High
School, New York, N.Y.; B.A., Lincoln University, Oxford, Pa.,
1921; graduated from University of Pennsylvania Law School,
Philadelphia, Pa., 1924; lawyer, private practice; special deputy
attorney general of the Pennsylvania State Department of Revenue
and special assistant deputy attorney general of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, 1934-1938; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention, 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth
Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of United States Representative Earl Chudoff; and
reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses (May 20, 1958-January 3,
1979); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service
(Ninety-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to
the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; died on June 22, 1987, in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Bibliography
”Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr.” in Black
Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction
of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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