Aug. 03-- Richard Schultz Schweiker, 89, a political novice who rose from the unlikely incubator town of Norristown to become a U.S. congressman, senator, and secretary of health and human services, ...

A liberal Pennsylvania Republican who was the vice presidential candidate in Ronald Reagan’s unsuccessful 1976 campaign has died. Former U.S. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker was 89. Schweiker of McLean, ...

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HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered flags at the state Capitol and at all commonwealth facilities to fly at half-staff in honor of former U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker. Schweiker, who was ...

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Richard Schweiker served as HHS Secretary under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983. His 1967 book How to End the Draft inspired the shift in the United States to a volunteer army.