Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California to Frank Nixon, a gas station owner and grocer, and Hannah Milhous. He graduated from Whittier College and Duke University Law School, then returned to Whittier to practice law where he met his future wife Thelma. They married in 1940 and had two daughters. Nixon served as a U.S. Representative and Senator before becoming Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower from 1952 to 1960. He ran for President in 1960 but lost to John F. Kennedy. Nixon ran again in 1968 and won, becoming the 37th U.S. President, but his presidency was cut short by the Watergate scandal and he resigned in 1974.