William M. Richardson

William Merchant Richardson (* January 4, 1774 in Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, † March 15 1838 in Chester, New Hampshire) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1811 and 1814, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Richardson attended the Harvard University until 1797. After a subsequent law degree in 1804 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Groton ( Massachusetts) to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. Following the resignation of Mr Joseph Bradley Varnum Richardson was at the due election for the fourth seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1811. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on April 18, 1814 in Congress. In this time the British -American War fell from 1812.

Moved yet in 1814 Richardson to Portsmouth in New Hampshire, where he was Attorney General. Since 1816, he was Chief Judge of the New Hampshire Supreme Court This office he held until his death on 15 March 1838 in Chester. His nephew William Adams Richardson (1821-1896) was also politician and served from 1873 to 1874 U.S. Treasury.