Raymond Pitcairn

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Raymond Pitcairn (1885 – July 12, 1966), son of PPG Industries founder John Pitcairn, was a lawyer, a businessman, a collector of ancient and medieval art, and an amateur architect. He supervised the building of the Bryn Athyn Cathedral and his own castle-mansion of Glencairn.^[1]

Pitcairn was also quite politically active. A Republican, he served as one of the delegates to Pennsylvania's convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933, and was one of Pennsylvania's delegates to the 1956 Republican National Convention. ^[2] He was also the national chairman and a major financial supporter of the Sentinels of the Republic, a conservative political group of the 1920s and 1930s which opposed the expansion of federal regulation and the New Deal.^[3]

Pitcairn died on July 12, 1966, and was buried at Bryn Athyn Cemetery, in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.^[2]

References

↑ Jaffe, Dennis T.; Jungé, Dirk; Paul, Joseph (2004), "Reinventing a family dynasty", : Family Business Magazine (Winter)
↑ 2.0 2.1 Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard". Retrieved 2008-11-14.
↑ Balch, Katharin. "Sentinels of the Republic". Retrieved 13 February 2013.

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Name	Pitcairn, Raymond
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1885
Place of birth
Date of death	July 12, 1966
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