Herman Clarence Nixon (1886 – 1967) was an American political scientist and a member of the Southern Agrarians.
[1] Nixon served as the President of the Southern Political Science Association in 1944 and 1945,[4] though there was no meeting in 1945.
[5] Additionally, he was a member of the Southern Regional Committee of the Social Science Research Council.
[6] His daughter-in-law, Betty C. Nixon, served on the Nashville city council from 1975 to 1987 and later worked for Vanderbilt University.
[6] His granddaughter, Mignon Nixon,[6] is a professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.