Richard Yuengling Sr.

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| name = Richard Yuengling Sr.

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| birth_name = Richard Yuengling

| birth_date = July 16, 1915

| birth_place = Pottsville, Pennsylvania, US

| death_date = 1999

| death_place = Pottsville, Pennsylvania, US

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| known_for = Owner, Yuengling

| spouse = Marjorie Hood

| parents = Frank D. Yuengling

| children = Richard Yuengling Jr.
Patricia H. Yuengling

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Richard L. Yuengling Sr. (July 16, 1915 – 1999) was an American businessman, the president and sole owner of the Pottsville, Pennsylvania brewer, Yuengling.

He was born in Pottsville on July 16, 1915.{{cite web|title=Richard L. Yuengling Sr.|url=http://rreu.11net.com/yuengling/newsarticles/pville_repub/www.pottsville.com_pub_1999_Mar_27_D906131.htm|publisher=Pottsville Republican|accessdate=October 9, 2015}} He attended The Hill School{{cite book|title=Yuengling: A History of America's Oldest Brewery|author=Noon, M.A.|date=2007|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|isbn=9780786486595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfZ3k6iz3NQC&pg=PA146|page=146|accessdate=July 31, 2017}}

He married Marjorie Hood, the granddaughter of judge and railway magnate Richard H. Koch, and they had a son Richard Yuengling Jr., the present owner and president of Yuengling, and a daughter, Patricia H. Yuengling.

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