Richard Ely Bird
U.S. Congressperson
1878 – 1955
Who was Richard Ely Bird?
Richard Ely Bird was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th District of Kansas from 1921 to 1923. Bird was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 4, 1878. He moved with his parents to Wichita, Kansas in 1887 and attended the public schools there. He was graduated from Wichita High School in 1898. Bird later studied law and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1901. He opened his legal practice in Wichita. In 1916 he became a judge of the district court of the 18th Judicial District of Kansas and was serving in that capacity when elected to congress during the Warren G. Harding presidential landslide of 1920. Bird unseated incumbent Democratic Congressman William Ayres by a narrow margin of 30,076 to 29,899. Bird's victory meant that all eight Kansas congressional districts would be represented by Republicans. Rep. Bird would lose his reelection bid in 1922 by a margin of 37,581 to 22,721 against former Congressman Ayres and thus resumed the practice of law. Bird ran once more for congress in 1928 against Rep. Ayres but lost by a total of 46,117 to 32,802 despite the Herbert Hoover Republican landslide.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1878
- Profession
- Lived in
- Kansas
- Died
- Jan 10, 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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