Biography

02/22/1851 - 11/27/1927


RICHARDS, George W., Sr., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, February 22, 1851 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa.; wholesale tobacconist; elected, council, Pittsburgh (1881-1884); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); tipstaff, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County (30 years); elected, council, Crafton (1889-1890); died, November 27, 1927 in Crafton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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