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Pat Nixon
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon, Patricia Ryan Nixon, Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon, Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon, Patricia Thelma Ryan, Thelma Ryan, Pat Ryan
First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
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Pat Nixon, born Thelma Catherine Ryan in 1912 in Ely, Nevada, was an American actor, politician, stage actor, and university teacher. She was educated at the University of Southern California and the USC Marshall School of Business. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the Second Lady and later as the First Lady of the United States. She was married to Richard Nixon and had two children, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
Nixon spoke English and French. She received the Order of the Pioneers of Liberia and the Order of the Sun of Peru. She died of lung cancer in natural causes in 1993 in Park Ridge. She was buried in California.
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Film & TV
Ely, Nevada, USA
Known for
- One to One: John & Yoko — Self (archive footage)2025
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2017
- Race for the White House — Self (archive footage)2016
- Led Zeppelin Played Here — Self (archive footage)2014
- A Kentucky Treasure: The Osborne Brothers Story — Self (archive footage)2014
- Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words — Self (archive footage)2014
- Our Nixon — Self (archive footage)2013
- The Presidents' Gatekeepers — Self (archive footage)2013
- Nixon in China — Self2012
- J. Edgar — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ryan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ely
- Place of death
- Park Ridge
- Spouse
- Richard Nixon
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Position held
- First Lady of the United States
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Patricia Nixon, bw photo c1969.jpg
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- Pat Nixon
- date of birth
- 1912-03-16
- date of death
- 1993-06-22
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- Pat Nixon
- name in native language
- Pat Nixon
- birth name
- Thelma Catherine Ryan
- place of burial
- California
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president. From 1953 to 1961, she had been the second lady of the United States when her husband was Dwight D. Eisenhower's vice president.
Born in Ely, Nevada, she grew up with her two brothers in Artesia, California, graduating from Excelsior Union High School in Norwalk, California, in 1929. She attended Fullerton Junior College and later the University of Southern California. She paid for her schooling by working multiple jobs, including pharmacy manager, typist, radiographer, and retail clerk. In 1940, she married lawyer Richard Nixon and they had two daughters, Tricia and Julie. Dubbed the "Nixon team", Richard and Pat Nixon campaigned together in his successful congressional campaigns of 1946 and 1948. Richard Nixon was elected vice president in 1952 alongside General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whereupon Pat became second lady. Pat Nixon did much to add substance to the role, insisting on visiting schools, orphanages, hospitals, and village markets as she undertook many missions of goodwill across the world.
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