Edward Nixon

Family Member

Birthday May 3, 1930

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace California

DEATH DATE Feb 27, 2019 (88)

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About

Best known as the youngest brother of 37th United States President Richard Nixon, he also had a career as an entrepreneur, founding a Washington state-based company called Nixon World Enterprises, Inc.

Before Fame

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from, respectively, Duke University and North Carolina State College.

Trivia

He and Karen Olson co-wrote a 2009 memoir titled The Nixons: A Family Portrait.

Family Life

He and his brothers Richard, Harold, Arthur, and Donald grew up in Whittier, California, as the children of Hannah and Francis Nixon. He married Gay Lynne Nixon in 1957.

Associated With

He served as a defense witness in the Watergate trial of Nixon cabinet member Maurice Stans and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell.