Richard Harding Poff

Richard Harding Poff (1969)

Richard Harding Poff (born October 19, 1923 in Radford , Virginia , † June 28, 2011 in Tullahoma, Tennessee ) was an American lawyer and politician . He belonged to the Republican Party .

Career

Richard Poff attended the public schools in Christiansburg . He then studied at Roanoke College in Salem . During the Second World War he worked as a bomber pilot in the Eighth Air Force in England . There he flew 35 successful missions over Europe . During this time he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross . His service ranged from February 1943 to August 1945. He retired from service with the rank of First Lieutenant .

After the war he went to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where he did his Bachelor of Laws in 1948 . He was admitted to the bar in June 1947 and then opened a law practice in Radford in 1948.

Poff was elected a Republican to the 83rd United States Congress. There he represented Virginia's sixth constituency . He was also re-elected to the US House of Representatives nine more times . His tenure was there from January 3, 1953 to his resignation on August 29, 1972, when he was a judge at the Supreme Court of Virginia .

Poff was one of two Republican MPs in Virginia's delegation who signed the so-called " Southern Manifesto, " which condemned a court ruling on racial equality.

Richard Poff last lived in Midlothian .

Web links

• Richard Harding Poff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Congressman Poff Speaks to Students During Independence Day Observance and Review. New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2007. “… Representative Richard Poff, a moderate conservative from Virginia…”

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Virginia congressman, state Supreme Court justice Richard Poff dies , Washington Post, June 29, 2011 (accessed June 29, 2011)
2. ^ Richard H. Poff, Who Withdrew Court Bid, Dies at 87 , The New York Times, July 1, 2011