William A. Richards
William Alford Richards ( born March 9, 1849 in Hazel Green, Grant County, Wisconsin, † July 25, 1912 in Melbourne, Australia ) was an American politician ( Republican) and Governor of the State of Wyoming.
Biography
After attending public schools in Hazel Green and Galena ( Illinois), he was from 1866 to 1869 teachers in Grant County. Between 1870 and 1874 he studied law at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 1873 he went with his brother in the Wyoming Territory, where she worked as a surveyor on the southern and western boundary of the territory. He then worked as a surveyor and civil engineer in Nebraska and Oakland ( California). In 1879 he was elected surveyor of Santa Clara County; However, he had to resign for health reasons this office soon and settled in Colorado. In 1881 he accepted the election to the surveyor of the El Paso County and city engineer of Colorado Springs.
After a few years in other parts of the U.S., he returned in 1884 to Wyoming, where he settled as farmers in the Big Horn Basin. 1886 Richards was appointed District Commissioner ( Commissioner) of 1875 established Johnson County elected. In 1889 he was U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to the Supreme surveyor ( Surveyor General ) of the territory named.
After his election as Governor of the State of Wyoming, he was on January 7, 1895 to January 2, 1899 at the office.
He was appointed by U.S. President William McKinley, first as Deputy Commissioner in the United States General Land Office then and was one of those responsible for the classification and distribution (land lottery) to by Indian settlements in Comanche County and Kiowa County, Oklahoma Territory white settlers, before he was 1903-1907 Commissioner of the authority.
1909 he was appointed the first Commissioner for Taxation ( Commissioner of Taxation ) of the State of Wyoming. This office he held until 1912. In the same year he died as a member of a delegation of the U.S. Committee for irrigation (U.S. Irrigation Committee) on a trip to Australia in Melbourne.
Swell
- Biography at the Wyoming State Archives
- Biography in Nebraska History