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Senate Years of Service: 1969-1981 Party: Republican
SCHWEIKER, Richard Schultz, a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in
Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa., June 1, 1926; graduated Phi Beta Kappa,
Pennsylvania State University 1950; during the Second World War, enlisted in
the United States Navy and served aboard an aircraft carrier 1944-1946; ten
years of business experience as manufacturing and sales executive; elected as a
Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); was not a candidate for reelection in 1968,
but was elected to the United States Senate in 1968; reelected in 1974 and
served from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1981; was not a candidate for
reelection in 1980; Ronald Reagans designated vice-presidential running mate
in 1976 presidential election; Secretary of Health and Human Services in the
Cabinet of President Ronald W. Reagan 1981-1983; president, American Council of
Life Insurance 1983-1994; is a resident of McLean, Virginia.
BibliographySchweiker, Richard. Health Care: Making a Good System Better.
in A
Changing America: Conservatives View of 80s from the United States
Senate, edited by Paul Laxalt and Richard S. Williamson, pp. 103-31.
South Bend, IN: Regnery/Gateway, 1980.
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