Biography

06/21/1885 - 11/15/1959

RICHARDSON, Harry Bentley, a Representative from Beaver County; born in Bentleyville, Washington County, Pa., June 21, 1885; graduated, Washington and Jefferson College, 1907; teacher (5 years); superintendent, Centersville High School; deputy consolate, United States Consular Service, Liverpool, England (1912) and Belgrade, Serbia (1913-1916); attorney; junior member, Holt, Holt, & Richardson law firm; unsuccessful Socialist candidate campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1922); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1926; unsuccessful Republican campaign for reelection to the House (1928); president, Citizens National Bank, Bentleyville (1933); solicitor, Aliquippa Community Loan Company; solicitor, Woodlawn Building and Loan Association; died, November 15, 1959 in Brighton Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interred, Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.