Harry A. Richardson

Harry Alden Richardson ( born January 1, 1853 in Camden, Delaware, † June 16, 1928 in Dover, Delaware ) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

Even as Harry Alden Richardson was a young boy, his family moved in 1863 from his birthplace Camden to Dover to. He attended the public school, then later a private school in East Greenwich (Rhode Iceland ). In 1876 he married Priscilla Walker.

Richardson worked in the canning and packaging company of his father, where he later became a partner before he completely took over in 1894 itself. He remained this trade for the rest of his life faithfully, but was later president of the First National Bank of Dover and worked on some other areas of business.

His first attempt to get elected to public office, failed when he 1890 election as Governor of Delaware lost to Democrat Robert J. Reynolds with 49:51 percent of the vote. Only a few years later Richardson was raised again an election that he won this time: in 1907 he won a seat in the Senate of the United States. Throughout his six-year tenure, the Republicans were in the majority faction in Congress. He was chairman of the Committee on the Public Service and the Committee on the Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico. In 1912 he not applied for re-election, so he resigned from the Senate on March 4, 1913.