Richard Murray Simpson (
August 30,
1900–
January 07,
1960) was a
Republican member
of the
U.S.
House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania
.
Richard
Simpson was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
. He graduated from the University of
Pittsburgh
, in 1923 and from Georgetown Law School
in Washington, D.C.
, in 1942. During the
First World War, Simpson served as a private
in the Three Hundred and First Company,
Tank Corps. He was engaged in the
insurance business from 1923 to 1937. He served in the
Pennsylvania State
House of Representatives from 1935 to 1937.
Simpson was elected as a Republican to the
75th United States Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Benjamin K. Focht. He was re-elected to the
Seventy-sixth and to the ten
succeeding Congresses and served until his death.
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