Richard B. Wigglesworth

Richard B. Wigglesworth

Richard Bowditch "Dick" Wigglesworth (born April 25, 1891 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  October 22, 1960 there ) was an American politician . Between 1928 and 1958 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Wigglesworth attended Milton Academy until 1908 and then studied at Harvard University until 1912 . In 1913 he was the assistant private secretary to the military governor of the Philippines . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard and his admission to the bar in 1916, he began to work in this profession in Boston. During the First World War he was used as a captain in the US Army in the war zone between 1917 and 1919 . He then went on to serve as a legal advisor to the US Treasury Department on foreign balance and rail payments issues. From 1922 to 1924 he was secretary of the Global War Debt Commission; From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the commission meeting in Berlin to monitor German reparations payments after the war. He then worked in Paris as a legal advisor to some of the organizations created by the Dawes Plan .

Politically, Wigglesworth was a member of the Republican Party . After the death of the Member of Parliament Louis A. Frothingham , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election for the 14th seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1928. After 15 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on November 13, 1958 . Since 1933 he represented the 13th  constituency of his state there as the successor to Robert Luce .

During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there from 1933 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Richard Wigglesworth saw the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and domestically the civil rights movement as a congressman . Since January 28, 1959, he was the successor to Livingston T. Merchant US Ambassador to Canada . He held this office until his death on October 22, 1960. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

Web links

• Richard B. Wigglesworth in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)