Richard Milhous Nixon, was born in Yorba Linda, Orange County, California on January 9, 1913. He attended the public schools; graduated from Whittier 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, California as an attorney in the Office of Emergency Management, Washington, D.C.

During the Second World War Nixon 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, he was 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. Nixon then went on to become Vice President to Dwight Eisenhower on November 4, 1952, for the term beginning January 20, 1953.

Nixon was re-elected as Vice President in 1956, and served from January 20, 1953, until January 20, 1961. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for President in 1960 and resumed the practice of law in Los Angeles and New York.

He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of California in 1962 but was eventually elected President of the United States in 1968 and inaugurated January 20, 1969. Nixon was re-elected in 1972, and inaugurated January 20, 1973.

Nixon resigned August 9, 1974, during impeachment proceedings against him in the House Judiciary Committee arising from matters surrounding the ‘Watergate’ affair. He accepted a pardon from President Gerald R. Ford, September 8, 1974.

Nixon was a resident of New York City, and later Park Ridge, N.J., until his death in New York City, April 22, 1994.