Richard S. Aldrich

Richard Steere Aldrich ( * February 29, 1884 in Washington DC, † December 25, 1941 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Aldrich was born into a prominent political family. He was a descendant of John Steere, one of the first settlers in Providence. His father, Nelson W. Aldrich (1841-1915) was of 1879-1911 the state of Rhode Iceland in both chambers of Congress. About Abby Aldrich Rockefeller his sister he was the brother of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and uncle of the later U.S. Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. His younger brother Winthrop was a banker and 1953-1957 American ambassador to Great Britain.

Aldrich attended the public schools in Providence and graduated in 1902 the local Hope Street High School. By 1906, he studied at Yale University. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his made ​​in 1911 admitted to the bar in New York, he began to work in his new profession. In 1913 he returned to Providence, where he has also worked as a lawyer. Between 1914 and 1916 he was a Republican congressman in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland; 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the State Senate. During the First World War, he served at a Red Cross unit in France, who took care of wounded soldiers.

1922 Aldrich was elected in the Second District of Rhode Iceland to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1923 the successor of Walter Russell Stiness. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1933 Congress. There he was temporarily on the Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1932 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in Congress Aldrich again worked as a lawyer. He was also several insurance companies and banks on the supervisory board. Since 1918 he was also director of the Providence Journal Company. Richard Aldrich died on 25 December 1941 in Providence, and was also buried there.