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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRichard Wilson AUSTIN
(1857-1919)
AUSTIN, Richard Wilson, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Decatur, Morgan County,
Ala., August 26, 1857; attended the common schools, Loudon High
School, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1873;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice
in Knoxville, Tenn.; clerk in the Post Office Department at
Washington, D.C., 1879-1881; Assistant Doorkeeper of the House of
Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress 1881-1883; special
agent of the War Department 1883-1885; engaged in newspaper work in
Knoxville, Tenn., in 1885; returned to Decatur, Ala., and continued
the practice of law; private secretary to Congressman Leonidas C.
Houk from Tennessee in 1888; served as city attorney of Decatur,
Ala.; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1890 to the
Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Minneapolis in 1892; returned to Knoxville, Tenn., in
1893 and edited the Knoxville Republican; United States marshal for
the eastern district of Tennessee 1897-1906; appointed United
States consul at Glasgow, Scotland, and served from July 1906 to
November 1907, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1909-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1918; died in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1919; interment in the
Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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