Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California and died April 22, 1994 in New York City at age eighty-one. He served as the 37th President of the United States from January 1969 through his August 1974 resignation.

Alexandria residency

Nixon’s documented Alexandria address is 3538 Gunston Road, Apartment T-2, in the parkfairfax-historic-district Place parkfairfax-historic-district 132-acre Colonial Revival garden-apartment community completed 1941–1943 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under FHA defense-housing financing — an early example of … garden-apartment community on the Glebe Road / Quaker Lane / King Street corridor straddling the Alexandria–Arlington line. The apartment was rented for approximately eighty dollars per month in the late 1940s — a representative wartime / postwar price point for federally-financed defense housing built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company between 1941 and 1943. ^[1] Source 1 Washington Post — Parkfairfax presidents coverage Newspaper

Nixon lived at the Parkfairfax address in two stints. The first was approximately 1943–1944, during his pre-Navy Office of Price Administration position and the very early phase of his U.S. Navy service. The second and longer stint ran approximately 1947–1951, spanning his terms as freshman and sophomore Congressman from California’s 12th district. Nixon was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1950 and moved his family to Whittier Street, NW Washington, in early 1951.

Connection to Alexandria

Nixon’s Alexandria connection is residential only — he never held Alexandria public office and the family did not return to the city after their 1951 move to Washington. His Parkfairfax tenancy nonetheless places him among the small handful of future U.S. presidents whose pre-presidential addresses can be located on a specific Alexandria street, and the parkfairfax-historic-district Place parkfairfax-historic-district 132-acre Colonial Revival garden-apartment community completed 1941–1943 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company under FHA defense-housing financing — an early example of … community’s two-future-presidents distinction (Nixon plus Gerald Ford Person Gerald Ford b. 1913 · d. 2006 38th President of the United States (1974–1977). Twenty-three-year Alexandria resident — first in 1951–55 as freshman Congressman from Michigan, then at 514 Crown View Drive … , who lived in the same complex 1951–55) is a documented Alexandria-history claim that has been covered repeatedly in Washington Post feature journalism.

After Alexandria

Nixon served as Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower 1953–1961, lost the 1960 presidential race to John F. Kennedy and the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Pat Brown, then returned to national politics with his 1968 presidential victory. He resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal — the only U.S. president to resign the office. He spent his post-presidential years writing and conducting elder-statesman diplomacy from his New Jersey and New York residences, and died of complications from a stroke at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on April 22, 1994.