Nixon, Pat
Nixon, (Thelma Catherine b. Ryan) Pat
(1912–93) First Lady; born in Ely, Nev. Following a difficult childhood, she taught in a California high school before marrying Richard Nixon in 1940. She felt the strain of being a political wife acutely and she was not an active first lady.The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.