Full Name Hannah Milhous Name Hannah Nixon | Religion Quaker Role Richard Nixon's mother | |
Born March 7, 1885 ( 1885-03-07 ) near Butlerville, Indiana, U.S. Relatives Pat Nixon (daughter-in-law)
Tricia Nixon Cox (granddaughter)
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (granddaughter)
David Eisenhower (grandson-in-law)
Jennie Eisenhower (great-granddaughter) Died September 30, 1967, Whittier, California, United States Spouse Francis A. Nixon (m. 1908–1956) Children Richard Nixon, Donald Nixon, Edward Nixon, Harold Nixon, Arthur Nixon Parents Almira Park, Franklin Milhous Grandchildren Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, Donald A. Nixon, Lawrene Mae Nixon Anfinson, Richard C. Nixon Similar People Richard Nixon, Francis A Nixon, Donald Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Pat Nixon | ||
Hannah Milhous Nixon (March 7, 1885 – September 30, 1967) was the mother of President Richard Nixon.
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Richard Nixon described his mother as "a Quaker saint." She is acknowledged to have exerted a tremendous effect on her son's outlook throughout his life. In Nixon's final remarks at the White House on August 9, 1974, he stated about her, "Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother my mother was a saint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could take care of my older brother for 3 years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own. Yes, she will have no books written about her. But she was a saint."
Early life
She was born near Butlerville, Indiana, the daughter of Almira Park (nee Burdg), who was from Columbiana County, Ohio, and Franklin Milhous, a native of Colerain Township, Belmont County, Ohio.
Family
She was married to Francis A. Nixon and had five sons:
In popular culture
Mary Steenburgen portrayed Hannah Nixon in the 1995 Oliver Stone film Nixon.