Richard Young (politician)

Richard Young (born August 6, 1846 in Derry , Ireland ; † June 9, 1935 in Flatbush , New York ) was an Irish- American lawyer and politician . Between 1909 and 1911 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Richard Young was born the year Prime Minister Robert Peel abolished the Corn Laws . The young family moved in 1851 into the United States and settled in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania down). He attended public schools there and graduated from Crittenden's Commercial College . A year after the end of the Civil War , he moved to Flatbush, which became part of Brooklyn in 1894 , from where he did extensive leather crafts in New York City. Between 1895 and 1902 he was a member of the Brooklyn Board of School Commissioners . Then he was Park Commissioner for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in 1902 and 1903 . He pursued banking business and was also involved in several corporations and business enterprises .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1908 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded George E. Waldo on March 4, 1909 . Since it to submit a bid again two years later abandoned, he retired from the after March 3, 1911 Congress of.

Young then returned to the leather industry and banking again, but also pursued other economic ventures in Brooklyn. He lived in Flatbush, where he died on June 9, 1935. His body was buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• Richard Young in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Richard Young at The Political Graveyard