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About Richard Peters
Richard Peters was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. His son of the same name, Richard Peters became reporter of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
Everything about Richard Peters →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, politician
- Position held
- member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 22, 1744
- Died
- August 22, 1828