About Richard K. Erwin
Lived 1860 – 1917 (aged 56–57). Richard K. Erwin was an American politician.
Richard K. Erwin (July 11, 1860 – October 5, 1917) was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 6, 1913, to October 5, 1917.
Born in Adams County, Indiana, to pioneers who had settled the area, Erwin served in the Indiana House of Representatives and was an Adams county prosecutor and a circuit court judge before being elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1910. He served until his death, following four weeks of hospitalization after surgery to remove gallstones.
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