Richard W. Blue

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Richard W. Blue, 1896

Richard Whiting Blue (born September 8, 1841 in Parkersburg , Virginia , † January 28, 1907 in Bartlesville , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Blue was born near Parkersburg in what is now West Virginia in 1841 . In the summer months he worked on a farm and in the winter he attended local schools. He later attended Monongalia Academy in Morgantown , Virginia until 1859 and then Washington College in Pennsylvania until 1863 . Between June 1863 and May 1866 he served in an infantry unit out of West Virginia during the Civil War . He rose to the rank of first lieutenant.

After serving in the military, he returned to West Virginia, where he settled in Grafton and worked as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, Blue began working in Linn County , Kansas, in his new profession in 1871 . Between 1872 and 1876 he was probate judge in this district and from 1876 to 1880 district attorney.

Politically, Blue was a member of the Republican Party . From 1880 to 1888 he was a member of the Kansas Senate . In the 1894 congressional election, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the eighth seat in Kansas, which was elected nationwide . There he took over from William A. Harris on March 4, 1895 . Since he was defeated by Jeremiah D. Botkin of the Populist Party in the elections of 1896 , Blue could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1897 . After the end of his political activities in the federal capital, he worked as a lawyer in Bartlesville in the Oklahoma Territory . He died there in 1907. He was buried in Pleasanton, Kansas.

Web links

  • Richard W. Blue in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)