LC control no. | n 87836858 |
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Personal name heading | Poff, Richard H. (Richard Harding), 1923-2011 |
Found in | NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Angell, R. Papers, 1896-1981 (Poff, Richard Harding, 1923-) Virginia Lives, 1964: p. 788, etc. (Poff, Richard H.; lawyer and U.S. Congressman, of Radford, Va.; b. 1923) Martindale-Hubbell, 1965 (Poff, Richard H.; lawyer, of Radford, Va.) New York times WWW site, July 6, 2011 (in obituary published July 1: Richard H. Poff; b. Richard Harding Poff, Oct. 19, 1923, Radford, Va.; d. Tuesday [June 28, 2011], Tullahoma, Tenn., aged 87; former Republican congressman from Virginia who surprised official Washington in 1971 by withdrawing from consideration for a seat on the Supreme Court rather than submit to the harsh scrutiny he feared his anti-civil-rights voting record would arouse) |