Biography

1786 - 11/19/1841


RICHARDS, Lewis W., a Representative from Berks County; born, 1786 in Pennsylvania; elected, chief burgess, Womelsdorf (1833-1834); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1834-1835 term; elected, auditor, Berks County (1838); died, November 19, 1841 in Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Morris Cemetery, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 


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