Richard N. Elliott

Richard N. Elliott

Richard Nash Elliott (born April 25, 1873 in Connersville , Fayette County , Indiana , †  March 21, 1948 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1931 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Elliott attended the public schools in his home country and then taught himself for three years. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1896, he began to work in this profession. Between 1897 and 1906 he was a Fayette County attorney. Politically, Elliott was a member of the Republican Party . From 1905 to 1909 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives . At the same time he was also the legal representative for the city of Connersville. In 1916 he took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Charles Evans Hughes was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of MP Daniel Webster Comstock , Elliott was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the sixth seat of Indiana , where he took up his new mandate on June 29, 1917. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1931 . These were initially overshadowed by the events of the First World War . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . Elliott served as chairman of the State Department's Expenditure Control Committee, an electoral committee, and the State Property Management Committee. In 1930 he chaired the Indiana regional Republican party convention.

In the same year Elliott was defeated by the Democrat William Larrabee . Between 1931 and 1943 he worked as Assistant Comptroller General for the federal government. He died in Washington on March 21, 1948 and was buried in Connersville.

Web links

• Richard N. Elliott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard N. Elliott in the database of Find a Grave (English)