Richard Cunningham McCormick

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Richard C. McCormick

Richard Cunningham McCormick (born May 23, 1832 in New York City , †  June 2, 1901 in Jamaica , Queens , New York ) was an American politician . He was governor of the Arizona Territory and represented it in the US House of Representatives as well as the US state of New York.

Career

Richard McCormick was born in New York, where he also attended community schools. He then worked on Wall Street in 1852 . He then worked as a newspaper correspondent in Sevastopol between 1854 and 1855 during the Crimean War . After the war he worked from 1857 to 1859 as an editor at Young Men's Magazine in New York. When the Civil War broke out, he became a correspondent for the New York Evening Post and the New York Commercial Advertiser for the Army of the Potomac . He also served as the first chief clerk in the Department of Agriculture in 1862 . President Lincoln made him Secretary of the Arizona Territory in 1863 . Thereafter, President Johnson made him governor of the territory in 1866 . He also founded the Prescott Arizona Miner in 1864 and the Tucson Arizona Citizen in 1870 .

McCormick was elected as the Arizona Territory delegate to the 31st , 32nd, and 33rd US Congresses . He stayed there from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1875; he did not stand for re-election in 1874. McCormick was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1872, 1876, and 1880 . Meanwhile, he also returned to New York. He also served as a US commissioner at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 . He then became First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1877 . The following year he was Commissioner General at the Paris Exposition , where he was accepted as Commander of the Legion of Honor by the French President . He also refused to be appointed envoy in Brazil in 1877 and in Mexico in 1879 . McCormick was elected as a Republican to the 44th US Congress , which he served from March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897. In 1896 he decided not to run for re-election. He then served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the State Normal School in Jamaica, New York. He died on June 2, 1901 in Queens and was buried in Grace Churchyard .

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See also

List of members of the United States House of Representatives from New York

personal data
SURNAME McCormick, Richard Cunningham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1901
Place of death Jamaica , New York