Richard W. Blue
U.S. Congressperson
1841 – 1907
Who was Richard W. Blue?
Richard Whiting Blue was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Parkersburg, Virginia, Blue worked on a farm in the summertime and studied in the select schools of that locality during the winter season. He attended Monongalia Academy, Morgantown, Virginia, in 1859 and Washington College until his enlistment, on June 29, 1863, as a private in Company A, Third Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. He became second and then first lieutenant of the company. Honorably discharged May 22, 1866, at Leavenworth, Kansas, when he returned to Grafton, W.Virginia. He taught school. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Virginia, and commenced practice in Linn County, Kansas, in 1871. Probate judge of Linn County 1872-1876. County attorney 1876-1880. He served as member of the State senate 1880-1888.
Blue was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He engaged in the practice of law until his death in Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, January 28, 1907. He was interred in Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton, Kansas.
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- Born
- Sep 8, 1841
Parkersburg - Also known as
- Richard Blue
- Education
- Washington & Jefferson College
- Died
- Jan 28, 1907
Bartlesville
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on July 23, 2013
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