James P. Richards

James Prioleau Richards ( born August 31, 1894 in Liberty Hill, South Carolina; † 2 February 1979 in Lancaster, South Carolina ) was an American politician and represented the state of South Carolina as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Prioleau Richards was born on August 31, 1894 in Liberty Hill, South Carolina. He attended public school and Clemson College, Clemson, South Carolina. During World War II he served as a private overseas. There he was rapidly promoted to corporal, sergeant ( sergeant ), and finally Lieutenant ( Second Lieutenant) in the Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, 118th Regiment, 30th Division 1917-1919. According to the war, he graduated in 1921 at the Law Department of the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He was admitted as a lawyer in the same year and opened a practice in Lancaster, South Carolina. He then worked as a judge of the probate court in Lancaster County 1923-1933.

Policy

Richards was elected as a Democrat in the seventy-third and the eleven succeeding Congresses. His tenure came on 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1957. He decided in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress not to run. During his tenure in Congress, he was involved in 1956 the Constitution of the Southern Manifesto, which spoke out against racial integration in public institutions. In addition, he was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( 82 and 84th Congress ). Richards was delegate to the Japanese Peace Conference in 1953 and U.S. delegate to the United Nations. Subsequently, he was Special Assistant for the Middle East in rank of ambassador under President Eisenhower between January 1957 and January 1958. Afterwards he returned to his job back as a lawyer.

James Prioleau Richards died on February 21, 1979 at his estate in Lancaster, South Carolina. He was buried in Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Liberty Hill, South Carolina.