Richard R. Kenney

Richard Rolland Kenney ( born September 9, 1856 in Laurel, Delaware; † August 14, 1931 in Dover, Delaware ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. Senate.

After attending the public schools and the Laurel Academy Richard Kenney made ​​in 1878, graduated from Hobart College in Geneva (New York). He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Dover. From 1879 to 1881 he practiced the Office of the Head of State Library (State Librarian ) from. Between 1880 and 1889 he served as a captain in the National Guard of Delaware; 1887 to 1891 he was general manager of the state armed forces with the rank of adjutant.

1896 belonged Kenney as a representative of the Delaware Democratic National Committee to; 19 January of the following year he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he became the successor of Anthony C. Higgins. This seat had been vacant since March 3, 1895. Kenney's term ended on March 4, 1901; previously it was the Democrats have failed in the Parliament of Delaware, to organize a majority for his re-election. Thus followed a renewed vacancy, which lasted until March 2, 1903.

Kenney practiced then from no political office. He again worked as a lawyer in Dover and was during the First World War, the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. armed forces. In 1921 he was legal adviser to the House of Representatives from Delaware; it was followed by a tenure as a prosecutor in Kent County. Until his death in 1931, he had held several offices at the state level.