Richard H. Whiting

Richard Henry Whiting ( born January 17, 1826 in West Hartford, Connecticut, † May 24, 1888 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Whiting attended the public schools of his home. In 1850 he moved to Altona, Illinois and 1860 to Galesburg, where he built a gas plant. During the Civil War he was paymaster of volunteers in the army of the Union. Between 1870 and 1875 he worked for the tax authority in the fifth financial district of Illinois. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Whiting was in the ninth constituency of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Granville Barrere on March 4, 1875. Since he resigned in 1876 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

In June 1884 Whiting participated in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He died on 24 May 1888 in New York and was buried in Peoria. His nephew Ira Clifton Copley (1864-1947) was also a congressman for Illinois; His grandson was the composer and songwriter Richard A. Whiting.