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Richard Rush (17801859)

Description

Richard Rush, the son of noted physician Benjamin Rush, was born in Philadelphia on 29 August 1780. The youngest graduate in his class at what is now Princeton University, Rush was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty. His legal career led to service as attorney general of Pennsylvania (1811), comptroller of the treasury (181114), U.S. attorney general (181417), U.S.

Citations

"Richard Rush." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310004268/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=847f84d6. Accessed 1 May 2023.

Richard Rush in Benjamin Rush Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Richard Rush at Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Richard Rush at Find a Grave.

Catherine Eliza Murray Rush at Find a Grave.

Hon. Richard D. Rush Sr. at FamilySearch.