George S. Nixon

George Stuart Nixon ( born April 2, 1860 in Newcastle, Placer County, California, † June 5, 1912 in Washington DC ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Nevada in the U.S. Senate.

After completing his education, George Nixon got a job at a railway company; He also learned the trade of telegraph. In 1881 he was assigned by his employer to Nevada. He later worked as a cashier for a bank in Winnemucca. Nixon was also playing a leading role in the construction of an opera house in Reno, as well as a theater in Winnemucca.

After he had also been active in the following years in the agriculture, mining and livestock, took George Nixon in 1891 his first political office as a deputy in the Nevada Assembly. In 1905 he was finally elected to the Senate in Washington, where he followed the no longer candidates William M. Stewart and functioned among others as Chairman of the Committee for coastal protection. The re-election he succeeded in 1911; The following year, however, Nixon died in office. His successor William A. Massey was appointed.