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Nixon, John Thompson

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 31, 1820, in Fairton, N. J. He served in the New Jersey legislature from 1848 to 1850, during the last year as speaker. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1870 was appointed United States judge for the district of New Jersey. He died Sept. 28, 1889, in Stockbridge, Mass.