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Pat Nixon

1912 - 1993

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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 President Richard Nixon. She also served as the second lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 when her husband was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat Nixon has received more than 3,646,959 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Pat Nixon is the 361st most popular companion (down from 339th in 2019), the 1,535th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,510th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Companion.

Pat Nixon was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was also the Second Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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  • 3.6M

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  • 59.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Pat Nixon ranks 361 out of 784. Before her are Gunilla Bielke, Cornelia, Miqdad ibn Aswad, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, and Empress Teimei. After her are Meketaten, Irene Doukaina, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Tanaquil, Mercedes of Orléans, and Joan of Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Pat Nixon ranks 67. Before her are Salvador Luria, Hermann Graf, Rodolfo Gucci, Herbert C. Brown, Georg Solti, and Petar Stambolić. After her are A. E. van Vogt, Ivan Yakubovsky, György Sárosi, Shoichi Nishimura, Julia Child, and Taiichi Ohno. Among people deceased in 1993, Pat Nixon ranks 43. Before her are Masahiko Kimura, Léon Theremin, Boris Christoff, Dražen Petrović, Stewart Granger, and River Phoenix. After her are Jimmy Doolittle, Don Ameche, Horia Sima, György Sárosi, Kakuei Tanaka, and Lucia Popp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pat Nixon ranks 1,535 out of 20,380. Before her are Poul Anderson (1926), Robert Patrick (1958), Theda Bara (1885), Arthur Penn (1922), Murray Bookchin (1921), and Alex Jones (1974). After her are Robert Loggia (1930), Percy Spencer (1894), Lil Wayne (1982), Lee Miller (1907), Gus Van Sant (1952), and Sam Elliott (1944).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Pat Nixon ranks 9. Before her are Priscilla Presley (1945), Rosalynn Carter (1927), Linda McCartney (1941), Martha Washington (1731), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), and Mamie Eisenhower (1896). After her are Abigail Adams (1744), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), Martha Jefferson (1748), Rachel Jackson (1767), and Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803).

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