Richard nixon vice president biography for kids

  Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He also had served as the Vice-President of the state under Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961.

He is the only person to be elected twice both as president as well as the vice-president of US. He is also the only American President to have resigned from office. After a failed presidential run in 1960, he was finally elected in the 1968 elections.

Richard nixon vice president biography for kids

He had served in the Navy as a lieutenant commander in the Pacific before being elected to the Congress and gradually to the presidential position.
  Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California to Francis A.

Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. His mother was a Quaker (his father was a convert to Quaker too), and hence his upbringing had been conservative and refrained from activities such as dancing and swearing. He was one of the five siblings, all boys, in the Nixon ho