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Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913 on his family's lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon's early life was marked by hardship at a young age with his father's lemon business going under in 1922 and then losing his younger brother to Illness in 1925, He himself suffered from a nasty case of pneumonia as a young child. Things started to look up for Nixon in his teens when he joined Fullerton Union High School's debate and its basketball team, however his older brother Harold developed tuberculosis that would later kill him a couple of years later. In 1928, Nixon began his political career on a bad note when he lost the election for student body president. Nixon graduate high school third in his class in 1930 and was offer a tuition grant to attend the prestigious Harvard University.

 

 

=== Road to the Presidency ===