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'''Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon''' (née '''Ryan'''; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993), also commonly known as '''
Born in [[Ely, Nevada]], she grew up with her two brothers in what is now [[Cerritos, California]], graduating from high school in 1929. She attended [[Fullerton Junior College]] and later the [[University of Southern California]]. She paid for her schooling by working multiple jobs, including pharmacy manager, typist, radiographer, and retail clerk. In 1940, she married lawyer Richard Nixon and they had two daughters, [[Tricia Nixon Cox|Tricia]] and [[Julie Nixon Eisenhower|Julie]]. Dubbed the "Nixon team," Richard and Pat Nixon campaigned together in his successful [[United States Congress|congressional]] campaigns of 1946 and 1948. Richard Nixon was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] in 1952 alongside General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], whereupon Pat became Second Lady. Pat Nixon did much to add substance to the role of the Vice President's wife, insisting on visiting schools, orphanages, hospitals, and village markets as she undertook many missions of goodwill across the world.
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