Richard Ely Bird

Richard Ely Bird ( * November 4, 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio; † January 10, 1955 in Long Beach, California ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the eighth election district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1887, Richard Bird came with his parents to Wichita, Kansas. There he attended the public schools. In 1898 he graduated from Wichita High School. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1901 admitted to the bar he began in Wichita to work in his new profession. Between 1916 and 1921 he was a judge in the 18th Judicial District of the State of Kansas.

Politically, Bird was a member of the Republican Party. In 1920 he was chosen as their candidate in the eighth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1921 the successor to the Democrats William Augustus Ayres, he was defeated by the in the following elections of 1922. This Bird was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1923.

After the end of his political activity in Washington Bird again worked as a lawyer. Between 1925 and 1927 he worked as a bankruptcy trustee in Wichita on behalf of the federal government. In 1937, Bird withdrew into retirement. He spent his life in Long Beach, where he died in January 1955.

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