| LC control no. | n 81020399 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Schweiker, Richard S. (Richard Schultz), 1926-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Schweiker, Richard Schultz, 1926-2015 |
| Birth date | 1926-06-01 |
| Death date | 2015-07-31 |
| Place of birth | Norristown (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Pomona (N.J.) |
| Affiliation | Pennsylvania State University United States. Navy United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Department of Health and Human Services Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Cabinet officers |
| Found in | Landes, B. R. The making of a Senator, 1974, c1976. Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, April 25, 2014: (Schweiker, Richard Schultz, a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., June 1, 1926; graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University 1950; during the Second World War, enlisted in the United States Navy and served aboard an aircraft carrier 1944-1946; ten years of business experience as manufacturing and sales executive; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); was not a candidate for reelection in 1968, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1968; reelected in 1974 and served from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1981; was not a candidate for reelection in 1980; Ronald Reagan's designated vice-presidential running mate in 1976 presidential election; Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1983; president, American Council of Life Insurance 1983-1994; is a resident of McLean, Virginia) Washington Post, August 4, 2015 (Richard S. Schweiker, a Pennsylvania Republican who served in both chambers of Congress and as health and human services secretary under President Ronald Reagan, died July 31, 2015 at a hospital in Pomona, N.J.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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