Herman Clarence Nixon

Herman Clarence Nixon (1886 – 1967) was an American political scientist and a member of the Southern Agrarians.

Early life Herman Clarence Nixon was born in 1886 in Possum Trot, Alabama. He was educated in the public schools of Jacksonville, Alabama and attended the Jacksonville State normal school, graduating in 1907. He graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University. He went to graduate school at University of Chicago. though there was no meeting in 1945. Additionally, he was a member of the Southern Regional Committee of the Social Science Research Council. His daughter-in-law, Betty C. Nixon, served on the Nashville city council from 1975 to 1987 and later worked for Vanderbilt University. His granddaughter, Mignon Nixon, is a professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Death He died in 1967.

Works Forty Acres and Steel Mules (1938). Possum Trot: Rural Community, South (1941). Lower Piedmont Country (1946).