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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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