John Richards (U.S. politician)

John Richards ( born April 13, 1765 in Llanuwchllyn, Wales, † April 18, 1850 in Lake George, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Richards was born about one month after the passage of the Stamp Act in Llanuwchllyn at Bala in Gwynedd. The family immigrated to the United States and settled in Johnsburg in Warren County. There he received a limited education. He sat from 29 January 1811 to 8 April 1811 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1810 and 1812 he was state witness ( State Surveyor ). As a delegate, he took in 1821 at the Constitutional Convention of New York.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress of Litchfield was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Elisha Litchfield on March 4, 1823. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

On April 18, 1850, he died in Lake George and was buried there on the John Richards Cemetery.