Richard Henry Wilde

Richard Henry Wilde

Richard Henry Wilde (born September 24, 1789 in Dublin , Ireland , †  September 10, 1847 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1835 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

In 1797, Richard was wild with his parents to the United States where they are in Baltimore ( Maryland settled). There the young Richard received a rather modest primary school education. In 1802 he moved to Augusta , Georgia. There he first worked in trade. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1809, he began to work in his new profession in Augusta. Between 1811 and 1813 he was a district attorney in the Richmond County High Court . According to the practice at the time, he was also ex officio Attorney General of his state.

Politically, Wilde was initially a member of the Democratic-Republican Party . In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1814 he was elected for the first mandate of the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William Barnett on March 4, 1815 . Since he was not confirmed in the elections of 1816, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1817 . Following the resignation of MP Thomas W. Cobb , Wilde was elected as his successor for the seventh mandate of Georgia in Congress . There he could only end the current legislative period between February 7 and March 3, 1825.

After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s, Richard Wilde joined Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party he founded in 1828 . In the years 1824 and 1826 he applied unsuccessfully to remain or return to Congress. After the resignation of MP John Forsyth , he was elected as a candidate of the Jackson parliamentary group in the due by-election for the fifth seat in the US House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on November 17, 1827, which he was a candidate for after several re-elections Democrats could exercise until March 3, 1835. This period was determined by the tension between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson until 1829.

In 1834 Richard Wilde was not re-elected. Between 1835 and 1840 he toured Europe where he dealt with literary affairs. He wrote some poems and other writings himself. In 1843 Wilde moved to New Orleans where he worked as a lawyer. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Louisiana . Richard Wilde died on September 10, 1847 in his new hometown.

Web links

• Richard Henry Wilde in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard Henry Wilde in the database of Find a Grave (English)