Richard P. Ernst

Richard Pretlow Ernst ( born February 28, 1858 in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, † April 13, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

After attending the public schools and the Chickerings Academy in Cincinnati made ​​Richard Ernst in 1878 graduated from Centre College in Danville. His law degree two years later he laid off at the Law School of the University of Cincinnati. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cincinnati and in his hometown of Covington.

Politically, Ernst operated for the first time 1888-1892 as a member of the City Council of Covington. In 1896 he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but failed. It was not until 24 years later he moved still to Congress a, when he won the election as Senator for Kentucky. His term lasted from March 4, 1921 until March 3, 1927; in the attempt to re-election, he failed in the later U.S. Vice President albums W. Barkley. During his tenure, he served as chairman of the Patent Committee ( Committee on the patent).

After retiring from the Senate Ernst worked again as a lawyer in Cincinnati and was also in Covington in the banking industry operates. He died in 1934 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The Camp Ernst, a summer camp of the YMCA in Burlington, was named as a tribute by Richard Ernst.