Nixon was Vice President for 8 years and President for about 5 1/2 years.
Richard Nixon- he resigned in August 1974 over the Watergate Scandal. He was re-elected for a second term in '72, so still had two years left to go when he resigned. His Vice-President Gerald Ford took over the post until the elections in '76, when he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.
Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 and died on April 22, 1994. Richard Nixon was 81 years old at the time of death and would be 99 years old this year in 2012. .
Nixon was VP under President Eisenhower.
1969-1974
Richard Nixon
The second-youngest U. S. Vice President ever was Richard Nixon. He was 40 years and eleven days of age when he took office in 1953.
President Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913. He served as the President of the United States from January 20, 1969, to August 9, 1974. Therefore, his term in office was a little over five and a half years.
5 years
The first and only President of the United States of America to resign the Presidency was the 37th President, Richard Milhous Nixon. When he was sworn in for his first term of office in 1969, President Nixon was 56 years old. He was the second of the three Presidents the United States has had from the state of California, all of whom were members of the Republican party. President Nixon won reelection by landslide in 1972 and gave his famous "silent majority" speech during his second inauguration in 1973. President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned the Presidency in 1974 in order to avoid inevitable impeachment.
Nixon resigned after about a year into his second term due to the Watergate affair which threatened to impeach him.
August 8,l974, this was over two years AFTER the Watergate incident break-in on June l7,l972, My l6Th birthday. He announced it August 8, 1974, but the resignation went into effect at noon August 9, 1974.
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both held public office in California before they were elected President. Herbert Hoover had a home in California but did not hold public office there and he moved around. He was living in Washington, DC, as Secretary of Commerce when he was elected.