Richard H. Whiteley

Richard H. Whiteley

Richard Henry Whiteley (born December 22, 1830 in County Kildare , Ireland , †  September 26, 1890 in Boulder , Colorado ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1875 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1836 Richard Whiteley came to the United States with his parents, where the family settled in the state of Georgia. There he received private schooling; then he worked in the craft. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1860, he began to work in Bainbridge in his new profession. In early 1861, Whiteley spoke out against the withdrawal of the state of Georgia from the Union. After this step was nevertheless taken, he served in the army of the Confederate States , where he made it to major.

After the war he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress , in which the state of Georgia had not yet been approved. In 1867 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the state constitution. In 1870 he was elected to the US Senate in Georgia . There he was not accredited because he was elected to the term of office that began on March 4, 1865 and Georgia was not yet a member of the Union again at that time.

After the Congress rejected the Democratic candidate Nelson Tift , elected in 1868 , Richard Whiteley was elected as his party's candidate in the second constituency of Georgia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1875. In the congressional elections of 1874 Whiteley was defeated by the Democrat William Ephraim Smith . In 1877 he moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he worked as a lawyer. He died there on September 26, 1890.

Web links

• Richard H. Whiteley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Richard H. Whiteley in the database of Find a Grave (English)