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Oil on canvas, Charles C. Tucker, 1958, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
RICHARDS, James Prioleau, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Liberty Hill, Kershaw
County, S.C., August 31, 1894; attended the county schools and Clemson College,
Clemson, S.C.; during the First World War served overseas as a private,
corporal, sergeant, and second lieutenant in the Trench Mortar Battery,
Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Thirtieth Division,
1917-1919; professional baseball player; graduated from the law department of
the University of South Carolina,Columbia, 1921; admitted to the bar in 1921;
lawyer, private practice; judge of the probate court of Lancaster County, S.C.,
1923-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on
Foreign Affairs (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; delegate to the
Japanese Peace Conference and United States delegate to the United Nations in
1953; special assistant to President Eisenhower, January 1957-January 1958, for
the Middle East, with rank of ambassador; resumed the practice of law; resided
in Lancaster, S.C., where he died February 21, 1979; interment in Liberty Hill
Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Liberty Hill, S. C.
BibliographyLee, Joseph Edward. America Comes First with Me: The
Political Career of Congressman James P. Richards, 1932-1957. Ph.D. diss.,
University of South Carolina, 1987.
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