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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—California / USRichard Milhous NIXON
(1913-1994)
Senate Years of Service:
1950-1953Party: RepublicanNIXON, Richard Milhous, a
Representative and a Senator from California and a Vice President
and 37th President of the United States; born in Yorba Linda,
Orange County, Calif., January 9, 1913; attended the public
schools; graduated from Whittier (Calif.) College in 1934 and Duke
University Law School, Durham, N.C., in 1937; admitted to the bar
the same year and commenced practice in Whittier, Calif.; attorney
in Office of Emergency Management, Washington, D.C., January 1942
to August 1942; during the Second World War served in the United
States Navy from August 1942 to January 1946 and was discharged as
a lieutenant commander; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth
and Eighty-first Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until
his resignation November 30, 1950; elected to the Senate for the
term commencing January 3, 1951; subsequently appointed to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Sheridan Downey and served
from December 1, 1950, until his resignation January 1, 1953, to
become Vice President; elected Vice President of the United States
on the Republican ticket with Dwight Eisenhower on November 4,
1952, for the term beginning January 20, 1953; reelected Vice
President of the United States in 1956, and served from January 20,
1953, until January 20, 1961; unsuccessful Republican nominee for
President of the United States in 1960; resumed the practice of law
in Los Angeles and New York; unsuccessful Republican nominee for
Governor of California in 1962; elected President of the United
States in 1968 and inaugurated January 20, 1969; reelected in 1972,
and inaugurated January 20, 1973; resigned August 9, 1974, during
impeachment proceedings against him in the House Judiciary
Committee arising from matters surrounding the
‘Watergate’ affair; accepted pardon from President
Gerald R. Ford, September 8, 1974; was a resident of New York City,
and later Park Ridge, N.J., until his death in New York City, April
22, 1994; interment on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Library,
Yorba Linda, Calif.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; American
National Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of
American Law; Nixon, Richard. RN: The Memoirs of Richard
Nixon. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978; Gellman, Irwin F.
The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952.
New York: The Free Press, 1999; Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon
and His America. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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