[3][failed verification][4] Born in 1928, in Biloxi, Mississippi, Nixon received a Juris Doctor in 1951 from Tulane University Law School.

He entered private practice in Biloxi from 1952 to 1968, interrupted by service in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1955.

Although the case was assigned to a state court, Wiley Fairchild had asked Nixon to help out by speaking to the prosecutor.

When Nixon was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Justice, he denied any involvement whatsoever.

In Nixon v. United States, handed down in 1993, the Court rejected his appeal as a nonjusticiable political question.