Hiram Lawton Richmond (May 17, 1810 – February 19, 1885) was a
Republican
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Hiram L. Richmond was born in
Chautauqua, New York
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. He received his early education from a private instructor and in the common schools. He studied medicine two years with his father. He attended
Allegheny College
he, תגל ערבה ותפרח כחבצלת
, mottoeng = "Add to your faith, virtue and to your faith, knowledge" (2 Peter 1:5)"The desert shall rejoice and the blossom as the rose" (Isaiah 35:1)
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in
Meadville, Pennsylvania
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, in 1834 and 1835 but did not graduate. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced the practice of law in Meadville. In early manhood was a staunch
Whig but united with the Republican Party upon its organization.
Richmond was elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...
. He served as a member of the board of trustees of Allegheny College for many years. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Meadville in 1885. Interment in
Greendale Cemetery
Greendale Cemetery, in Meadville, Pennsylvania is a publicly owned, non-profit rural cemetery. Many notable people including a Supreme Court Justice, several congressmen, soldiers and inventors are interred in the cemetery.
History
As early as 17 ...
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Sources
The Political Graveyard
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Pennsylvania lawyers
1810 births
1885 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
People from Chautauqua, New York
19th-century American legislators
Burials at Greendale Cemetery
19th-century American lawyers
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