Birth: Yorba Linda, California, January 9, 1913

Ancestry: Scotch-Irish and German-English-Irish

Father: Francis Anthony Nixon

Mother: Hannah Milhous Nixon

Brothers: Harold Samuel Nixon (1909-1933); Francis Donald Nixon (1914-1987); Arthur Burdg Nixon (1918-1925); Edward Calvert Nixon (1930-)

Religious Affiliation: Quaker

Education: Public Schools; Whittier College (B.A., 1934); Duke University Law School (LL.D., 1937)

Occupation Before Presidency: Lawyer

Military Service: Lt. (jg); lt. comdr. of United States Navy; comdr., United States Navy Reserve (active duty 1943-1945)

Prepresidential Offices: United States congressman; United States Senator; United States Vice President

Inauguration Age: 56

Occupation After Presidency: Writer

Death: New York, New York, April 22, 1994

Place of Burial: Nixon Library, Yorba Linda, California

Inauguration: January 20, 1969; The Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew

Secretary of State: William P. Rogers

Secretary of the Treasury: David M. Kennedy; John B. Connally (from February 11, 1971); George P. Shultz (from June 12, 1972)

Secretary of Defense: Melvin R. Laird

Attorney General: John N. Mitchell; Richard G. Kleindienst (from June 12, 1972)

Postmaster General: Winton M. Blount (Through 1971, when he became director of the U.S. Postal Service, a newly independent agency, ending the cabinet-level status of the postmaster general)

Secretary of the Interior: Walter J. Hickel; Rogers C.B. Morton (from January 29, 1971)

Secretary of Agriculture: Clifford M. Hardin; Earl L. Butz (from December 2, 1971)

Secretary of Commerce: Maurice H. Stans; Peter G. Peterson (from February 21, 1972)

Secretary of Labor: George P. Schultz; James D. Hodgson (from July 2, 1970)

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Robert H. Finch; Elliot L. Richardson (from June 24, 1970)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: George W. Romney

Secretary of Transportation: John A. Volpe

Supreme Court Appointments: Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice (1969); Harry H. Blackmun (1970); Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1972); William H. Rehnquist (1972)

Congress #91 (January 3, 1969-January 2, 1971):

Senate: 58 Democrats; 42 Republicans

House: 243 Democrats; 192 Republicans

Congress #92 (January 21, 1971-October 18, 1972):

Senate: 54 Democrats; 44 Republicans; 1 Independent; 1 Conservative

House: 255 Democrats; 180 Republicans

Inauguration: January 20, 1973; The Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew; Gerald R. Ford (from December 6, 1973)

Secretary of State: William P. Rogers; Henry A. Kissinger (from September 22, 1973)

Secretary of the Treasury: George P. Schultz; William E. Simon (from May 8, 1974)

Secretary of Defense: Melvin R. Laird; Elliot L. Richardson (from February 2, 1973); James R. Schlesinger (from July 2, 1973)

Attorney General: Richard G. Kleindienst; Elliot L. Richardson (from February 2, 1973); William B. Saxbe (from January 4, 1974)

Secretary of the Interior: Rogers C.B. Morton

Secretary of Agriculture: Earl L. Butz

Secretary of Commerce: Peter G. Peterson; Frederick B. Denton (from February 2, 1973)

Secretary of Labor: James D. Hodgson; Peter J. Brennan (from February 2, 1973)

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Elliot L. Richardson; Caspar W. Weinberger (from February 12, 1973)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: George W. Romney; James T. Lynn (from February 2, 1973)

Secretary of Transportation: John A. Volpe; Claude S. Brinegar (from February 2, 1973)

Congress #93 (January 3, 1973-December 20, 1974):

Senate: 56 Democrats; 42 Republicans; 2 Others

House: 242 Democrats; 192 Republicans; 1 Independent