James Prioleau Richards

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James Prioleau Richards, 1956

James Prioleau Richards (born August 31, 1894 in Liberty Hill , South Carolina , † February 2, 1979 in Lancaster , South Carolina) was an American politician and represented the state of South Carolina as a member of the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Prioleau Richards was born on August 31, 1894 in Liberty Hill, South Carolina. He attended public school and Clemson College in Clemson , South Carolina. During the First World War he served as a common soldier overseas. He was then quickly promoted to corporal, sergeant ( Sergeant ) and finally lieutenant ( Second Lieutenant ) in Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, 118th Regiment, 30th Division from 1917 to 1919. After the war he graduated in 1921 at the Law Department of the University of South Carolina in Columbia . He was admitted to the bar that same year and opened a practice in Lancaster, South Carolina. He then served as a probate judge in Lancaster County between 1923 and 1933.

politics

Richards was elected a Democrat in the seventy-third and subsequent eleven Congresses. His term of office ran from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1957. In 1956 he decided not to run for the eighty-fifth congress. During his tenure in Congress in 1956 he was involved in the constitution of the Southern Manifesto , which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions. He was also chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (82nd and 84th Congress). Richards was a delegate to the Japanese Peace Conference and in 1953 a US delegate to the United Nations . He was then Special Assistant for the Middle East in the rank of ambassador under President Eisenhower between January 1957 and January 1958. He then returned to his practice as a lawyer.

James Prioleau Richards died on February 21, 1979 on his estate in Lancaster, South Carolina. He was buried in the Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Liberty Hill, South Carolina.

literature

  • Joseph Edward Lee, America Comes First with Me: The Political Career of Congressman James P. Richards, 1932–1957. Ph.D. diss., University of South Carolina, 1987.

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personal data
SURNAME Richards, James Prioleau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and MP
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Liberty Hill , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1979
Place of death Lancaster , South Carolina