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AJC.com > Legislature > Georgia Beat > Archives > 2005 > February > 18 > Entry
House stalwart Nixon to undergo surgery today
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Members of the Georgia House prayed together today for Wiley T. Nixon, a fixture as familiar to Capitol insiders as the gold dome is to outsiders.
Nixon is hospitalized with heart problems, on a ventilator and facing surgery later today. For about 34 years, Nixon, the General Assembly’s postmaster, has worked his way into the hearts of state legislators and Capitol employees, seeing to it that the mail gets delivered and problems get solved.
Nixon, who is in his 60s is a short, chunky man from Carrollton who has had a hearing problem and a speech impediment since birth. In recent years, his arthritic legs and hips have been failing, so he travels around the hallways in a motorized scooter.
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