Richard Thomas Walker Duke

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Richard Thomas Walker Duke

Richard Thomas Walker Duke (born June 6, 1822 in Charlottesville , Virginia , †  July 2, 1898 there ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Duke first attended private schools and then graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington by 1844 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1850, he began to work in this profession. Between 1858 and 1869 he served as the district attorney in Albemarle County . During the Civil War he was an infantry colonel in the Confederate Army .

After the death of MP Robert Ridgway , Richard Duke was elected as Conservative Party candidate in the due by-election for the fifth seat of Virginia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1870 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1873 . He served in the Virginia House of Representatives in 1879 and 1880 . Richard Duke died on July 2, 1898 on his Sunny Side country estate near Charlottesville.

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