Joseph Havens Richards SJ (born Havens Cowles Richards; November 8, 1851 – June 9, 1923) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a prominent president of Georgetown University, where he instituted major reforms and significantly enhanced the quality and stature of the university. Richards was born to a prominent Ohio family; his father was an Episcopal priest who controversially converted to Catholicism and had the infant Richards secretly baptized as a Catholic.
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8 November 1851 Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Died |
9 June 1923 (aged 71) Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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