John Richards (Pennsylvania)

John Richards ( born April 18, 1753 New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, † November 13, 1822 ) was an American politician. Between 1795 and 1797 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Richards was the older brother of Congressman Matthias Richards ( 1758-1830 ). He enjoyed a private school education. In the 1770s he joined the American Revolution. During the Revolutionary War he served as a judge ( magistrates ). In 1777 he was justice of the peace in Philadelphia County. This office he held in addition to his other activities until his death. In 1784 he was in Montgomery County Appeals judge and in 1787 he participated as a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party.

At the Congress in elections of 1794 Richards was selected in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1795. Since he resigned in 1796 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1797. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Richards operated in the iron processing, trade and agriculture. Between 1801 and 1807, he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania. He died on 13 November 1822 in New Hanover.