Richard A Tilghman

Sessions

Session	Office	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.