Richard C. Shannon

Richard C. Shannon

Richard Cutts Shannon (born February 12, 1839 in New London , Connecticut , † October 5, 1920 in Brockport , New York ) was an American officer , lawyer and politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Cutts Shannon was born and raised in New London about seven years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He graduated from Grammer School and the high school in Biddeford ( Maine ) and the Waterville College (now Colby College ) in Maine.

During the Civil War he enlisted on June 24, 1861 in Company H of the Fifth Regiment of the Maine Volunteer Infantry . He was appointed First Lieutenant on October 10, 1861 . He became aide-de-camp of General Henry Warner Slocum on March 15, 1862, and Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the Volunteers on October 2, 1862 . He was honorably discharged on February 10, 1866.

In 1871 he was appointed Secretary in the US Embassy in Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil ) - a position he held until his resignation in March 1875. In 1876 he took over the management of the Botanical Garden Railroad Co. , an American company in Brazil, where over time he was Vice President, General Manager and President.

Shannon returned to the United States in 1883 and graduated from the law school of Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in New York City in 1885 . He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and then began practicing in New York City. President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua in 1891 , and he was also accredited to El Salvador and Costa Rica - a position he held until April 1893.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the 1894 congressional elections for the 54th Congress , Shannon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 13th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded John De Witt Warner on March 4, 1895 . After a successful re-election he resigned in 1898 to run again and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1899 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he returned to practice as a lawyer in New York City. In 1903 he retired and moved to Brockport, Monroe County . He died there on October 5, 1920 and was then buried in Lake View Cemetery .

Web links

• Richard C. Shannon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard C. Shannon in the database of Find a Grave (English)