Richard Nixon Research Paper

In a small farmhouse on a lemon farm in Yorba Linda, California Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 to his father Francis Anthony Nixon who was a businessman and his mother Hannah Milhous Nixon. He was raised in Whittier, California after his father sold the lemon farm in 1922. Richard was one of the top 3 in his class in high school when he graduated in 1930. Nixon was offered a scholarship to Harvard University because he had won several awards and was an outstanding-student, but his family could not afford the cost of sending him to Harvard so instead Nixon went to Whittier College. He graduated in 1934 from Whittier College where he had been active in the programs such as plays, the debate team, Orthogonians organization,

Two years later in 1942, he started his job as an attorney in the Office for Price Administration in Washington, D.C. In this job as an attorney Nixon’s eyes were opened to the government bureaucracy’s issues which later in his career caused him to create policies that would help solve the problems. Seven months later he was as an officer commissioned in the U.S. Navy. From January 1944 to July 1944 he served in the South Pacific on the islands of Bougainville and Green Island. Nixon while serving on the island of Bougainville opened the “Nick’s Hamburger Stand” for the crews headed off to accomplish battle missions. In the September of 1945 Nixon was urged to run for a seat in the House of Representatives by Republican leaders in Whittier. A year later, in 1946 as a rank of lieutenant commander he was honorably discharged from the U.S Navy. The same year he was honorably discharged, Tricia, his daughter was born on February 21. Later that year in November Richard was elected representative for California’s 12th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He defeated the Democratic congressman Jerry Voorhis who had served 5