- Hannah Milhous Nixon
Hannah Milhous Nixon (
March 7 1885 –September 30 1967 ) was mother of PresidentRichard Nixon .She was born in
Jennings County, Indiana to Franklin Milhous and Almira Park Burdg. She was married toFrancis A. Nixon . [ [http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=FunFacts&category=Home Nixon Fun Facts] via Nixon Foundation.]They had five children:
*Harold Samuel Nixon (June 1 1909 –March 7 1933 )
*Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9 1913 –April 22 1994 )
*Francis Donald Nixon (November 23 1914 –June 27 1987 )
*Arthur Burdg Nixon (May 26 1918 –August 10 1925 )
*Edward Calvert Nixon (bornMay 3 1930 ). [ [http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=FunFacts&category=Home Nixon Fun Facts] via Nixon Foundation.]Richard Nixon described his mother as "a Quaker saint." [ [http://www.nixonfoundation.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=FunFacts&category=Home Nixon Fun Facts] via Nixon Foundation.] She is acknowledged to have exerted a tremendous effect on her son's outlook throughout his life. [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9055968/Richard-M-Nixon Encyclopedia Britannica on line] ]
Mary Steenburgen portrayed Hannah Nixon in the 1995Oliver Stone film "Nixon".References
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