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Thornburgh, Dick

LC control no.n 81137833
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Personal name headingThornburgh, Dick
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Variant(s)Thornburgh, Richard Lewis
See alsoPennsylvania. Governor (1979-1987 : Thornburgh)
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Birth date1932-07-16
Death date2020-12-31
Place of birthRosslyn Farms (Pa.)
Place of deathOakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
Field of activityPennsylvania--Politics and government Law Justice, Administration of
AffiliationUnited States. Department of Justice
Profession or occupationGovernors--Pennsylvania
Attorneys general
Found inPa. Governor (1979- : Thornburgh). Congressional districts of Pennsylvania, 1980 (a.e.) map recto (Dick Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania)
World almanac & book of facts, 1980 (Richard Thornburgh, Pa., governor)
NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Scott, H. Papers, 1941-1983 (Thornburgh, Richard Lewis, 1932-)
WW Am. Pol., 1985/86: p. 1295 (Thornburgh, Richard L., 1932-)
1987 Information Please Almanac: p. 749 (Thornburgh, Richard L.; gov. of Pa. to Jan. 1987)
Where the evidence leads, c2003: t.p. (Dick Thornburgh)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 12, 2021 (in obituary dated Dec. 31, 2020: Richard L. Thornburgh, a former crime-busting federal prosecutor who unflappably led Pennsylvania through the Three Mile Island nuclear crisis as the state's two-term governor and served as U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991, died Dec. 31 in Oakmont, Pa. He was 88. Richard Lewis Thornburgh was born in Rosslyn Farms, a prosperous suburb of Pittsburgh, on July 16, 1932)
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