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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Harry A. Richardson |
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Dover, Delaware , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 01, 1853
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| Died | June 16, 1928
(75 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | RICHARDSON, Harry Alden, a Senator from Delaware; born in Camden, Kent County, Del., January 1, 1853; moved with his parents to Dover, Kent County, in 1856; attended the common schools and the academy in East Greenwich, R.I.; worked in his father’s canning and packing establishment at Dover, Del., became a partner, and assumed entire control in 1894; elected State senator in 1888; president of the First National Bank of Dover; also interested in public-service corporations; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware in 1890; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1907 and served from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Printing (Sixty-second Congress); again engaged in the manufacture of canned food products; died in Dover, Del., June 16, 1928; interment in Lakeside Cemetery.
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