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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRichard Merrill ATKINSON
(1894-1947)
ATKINSON, Richard Merrill,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., February 6, 1894; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Wallace University School, Nashville, Tenn., in
1912, from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1916, and
from the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.,
in 1917; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced the practice
of law in Nashville, Tenn., in 1920; during the First World War
served from June 30, 1917, until honorably discharged on August 29,
1919, as a member of the Forty-seventh Company, United States
Marines, Second Division, serving in France with the American
Expeditionary Forces; attorney general of the tenth judicial
circuit of Tennessee from September 1, 1926, to September 1, 1934;
State commissioner of Smoky Mountain National Park 1931-1933;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3,
1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1938; engaged in the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn., until his
death there on April 29, 1947; interment in Spring Hill
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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