Richard W. Blue

Richard Whiting Blue ( * September 8, 1841 in Parkersburg, Wood County, Virginia; † January 28, 1907 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Blue was born in 1841 in Parkersburg in present-day West Virginia. In the summer months, he worked on a farm and in the winter he attended the local schools. Later he attended until 1859, the Monongalia Academy at Morgantown in Virginia and then to 1863 the Washington College in Pennsylvania. Between June 1863 and May 1866 he was during the Civil War soldier in an infantry unit from West Virginia. He rose to the lieutenant.

After his military service, he returned to West Virginia, where he settled in Grafton and worked as a teacher. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer Blue started since 1871 in Linn County, Kansas to work in his new profession. Between 1872 and 1876 he was in this district restructuring judge and 1876-1880 District Attorney.

Politically, Blue member of the Republican Party. From 1880 to 1888 he was a member of the Senate of Kansas. In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected for the eighth deputy seat of Kansas, who was elected state wide in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of William A. Harris. Since he was defeated by the Populist Party in the elections of 1896 Jeremiah D. Botkin, Blue was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. After the end of his political activities in the federal capital, he worked as a lawyer in Bartlesville in Oklahoma Territory. He is also passed in 1907. He was buried in Pleasanton (Kansas).