Richard N. Elliott

Richard Nash Elliott ( * April 25, 1873 in Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana, † March 21, 1948 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1931 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Elliott attended the common schools and taught himself after three years as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1896 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1897 and 1906 he was prosecuting attorney of Fayette County. Politically, Elliott member of the Republican Party. In the years 1905-1909 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. At the same time he was also the legal representative of the city of Connersville. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Charles Evans Hughes as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Mr Daniel Webster Comstock Elliott was at the due election for the sixth seat of Indiana as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 29 June 1917. After six re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1931 Congress. These were initially overshadowed by the events of the First World War. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Elliott was meanwhile chairman of the Committee to monitor the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an election committee and the Committee for the management of state property. In 1930, he chaired the regional Republican convention in Indiana.

That same year, Elliott was defeated by Democrat William Larrabee. Between 1931 and 1943 he worked as Assistant Comptroller General for the Federal government. He died on 21 March 1948 in Washington, and was buried in Connersville.