Robert N. C. Nix

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. Interment at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.