Richard A Tilghman

Sessions

Session	Position	District	Party
1969		17	Republican
1970		17	Republican
1971		17	Republican
1972		17	Republican
1973		17	Republican
1974		17	Republican
1975	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1976	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1977	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1978	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1979	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1980	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1981	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1982	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1983	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1984	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1985	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1986	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1987	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1988	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1989	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1990	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1991	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1992	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1993	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1994	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1995	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1996	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1997	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1998	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
1999	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
2000	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
2001	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican
2002	Appropriations Committee Chair	17	Republican

Counties	Delaware, Montgomery

Biography

1920 - 2017

Personal Life & Education:

Richard A. Tilghman (R), born in 1920, in Manchester, England; son of Benjamin Chew and Eliza Middleton Fox; Fountain Valley School; Princeton University (B.A.), politics, 1943; additional studies, Berlitz School of Languages; married Diana Disston; died February 23, 2017.

Early Career:

Major, U.S. Marine Corps, WWII, Silver Star for action in Iwo Jima; member, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Episcopal Church.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Pa. House of Representatives, 1967-68; elected to Pa. Senate 1968; chair, Appropriations committee (majority, 1981-92 & 1995-2005; minority, 1976-80 & 1993-94); vice-chair, Finance, 1989-92; member, Law & Justice, Rules & Executive Nominations, Urban Affairs & Housing Commission; resigned August 31, 2001.

Pa. House of Representatives Biography

Cited: Pennsylvania Manual, Biographies of Members of the Senate, pg. 3-22; Volume 114, December, 1999.