Richard Richards, Republican Party icon, dies at age 82

The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | Friday, January 30, 2015 | PAUL ROLLY

[seacapn]

Richard Richards, a key player in Utah Republican politics for three decades, was the first GOP chairman to endorse Ronald Reagan for president and was instrumental in Reagan's successful presidential campaign in 1980.

An Ogden native who rose to become chairman of the National Republican Committee in Reagan's first term, Richards died at his home Friday. He was 82...

Richards' work on Reagan's campaign earned him the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee in 1981-82.

[seacapn]

Seems like a lot of figures from the Reagan era have died, and many of those left are inactive in public life due to advancing age. Reagan's first domestic policy adviser Martin Anderson also died earlier this year.

It's kind of a sad reminder that when we look back to the Reagan era, there are fewer and fewer people to look back with us, or who remember things from an adult perspective from back then.

[seacapn]

Sorry about that; headline should read “Richard Richards, Republican Party icon, dies at age 82.” My mistake.

[Impy]

RIP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Was he related to Phillip Phillips?

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Funny, there was an Alabama Congressman by that name in the 1850s...

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000311

[Fungi]

Not funny. Levity has its place, not here. May he rest in peace.

[fhayek]

Or Marky Mark?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What? I just asked a question.

[Gator113]

May this good man RIP.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Richie Rich?

[BobL]

I remember a Renee Richards...not good.

This guy does look like he was a great American.