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NIX, Robert Nelson Cornelius, Sr., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Orangeburg, S.C., August
9, 1898; graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School, New York, N.Y.; B.A.,
Lincoln University, Oxford, Pa., 1921; graduated from University of
Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., 1924; lawyer, private practice;
special deputy attorney general of the Pennsylvania State Department of Revenue
and special assistant deputy attorney general of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, 1934-1938; delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1956;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth Congress, by special election, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Earl
Chudoff; and reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses (May 20, 1958-January
3, 1979); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service
(Ninety-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the
Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; died on June 22, 1987, in Philadelphia, Pa.
BibliographyRobert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr. in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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