Mark Richards (politician)

Mark Richards ( born July 15, 1760 Waterbury, Connecticut; † August 10, 1844 in Westminster, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1821 he represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Richards enjoyed only a limited education, and served during the War of Independence from 1776 in the Continental Army. After the war he settled first in Boston, where he was employed in a store. In 1796 he moved to Westminster in Vermont. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1801 and 1805 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont; 1806 to 1810 he served as sheriff, police in Windham County. In 1812 he was one of the electors of James Madison in the presidential election. Between 1813 and 1815, Richards was a member of the senior staff of the Governor of Vermont.

In the congressional elections of 1816, which were held all across the state, he was for the second seat in parliament of that State in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Luther Jewett on March 4, 1817. After a re-election in 1818 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1821 two legislative sessions. Even after the end of his time in Congress Richards remained politically active. Between 1824 and 1826, and in 1828 and again from 1832 to 1834 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In the years 1830 and 1831, he served as Deputy Governor Deputy Governor Samuel C. Crafts. At that time he was after the dissolution of his party mid- 1820s a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

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