Richard P. Freeman

Richard Patrick Freeman ( born April 24, 1869 in New London, Connecticut; † July 8, 1944 in Newington, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Freeman attended the public schools of his home including the Bulkeley High School, where he graduated in 1887. Then he prepared himself until 1888 at the Noble and Greenough 's Preparatory School in Boston (Massachusetts ) on his studies at Harvard University before. At Harvard he remained until 1891. After studying law at the law school of Yale University and his made ​​in 1894 Admitted to bar Freeman began practicing in his new profession in New London. In the years 1896-1898 he worked for the Ministry of the Interior in the States of Oregon and Washington. During the Spanish- American War of 1898 Sergeant Freeman was in a volunteer regiment from Connecticut. Later he became a Major and military lawyer ( Judge Advocate ) in the National Guard of his state. Between 1898 and 1901, Freeman also worked as a prosecutor in the service of the City of New London.

Freeman was a member of the Republican Party. In 1912, he competed unsuccessfully to have his party's nomination for the congressional elections. Two years later he was then in the second district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Bryan F. Mahan on March 4, 1915. After eight elections he could remain until March 3, 1933 a total of nine legislative sessions in Congress. In this time of the First World War and the adoption of the 18th, 19th and 20th constitutional amendment fell by which the Prohibition Act, women's suffrage, and new appointments have been introduced for the terms of office of the President, Vice President and all members of Congress. His last years in Congress were shaped by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1932 Richard Freeman was not nominated by his party for another term. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He died in July 1944 in Newington and was buried in his hometown of New London.

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