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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWILDE, Richard Henry
(1789—1847)
WILDE, Richard Henry, a Representative from Georgia; born in Dublin, Ireland, September 24, 1789; immigrated to the United States in 1797 with his parents, who settled in Baltimore, Md.; received a limited schooling; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1802; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Augusta; solicitor general of the superior court of Richmond County and by virtue of this office attorney general of Georgia 1811-1813; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; elected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb and served from February 7 to March 3, 1825; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress; subsequently elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses and served from November 17, 1827, to March 3, 1835; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; engaged in literary pursuits while traveling in Europe 1835-1840; moved to New Orleans in 1843 and continued the practice of law; professor of constitutional law in the University of Louisiana at New Orleans; died in New Orleans, La., September 10, 1847; interment in a vault in a cemetery in New Orleans; reinterred at Sand Hill family burying ground near Augusta, Ga., in 1854 and again in 1886 in the City Cemetery, Augusta, Ga.
Bibliography
Tucker, E.L. Richard Henry Wilde; His Life and Selected Poems
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1966.
Graber, Ralph S. “New Light on the Dedication of Richard Henry Wilde’s Hesperia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
44 (March 1960): 97-99.
Jones, Charles Colcock. The Life, Literary Labors and Neglected Grave of Richard Henry Wilde
. Augusta, Ga.: N.p., 1885.
Tucker, Edward L. “Charles Sumner and Richard Henry Wilde.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
49 (September 1965): 320-23.
———. Richard Henry Wilde; His Life and Selected Poems
. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1966.
———, comp. “Richard Henry Wilde (1790-1847).” In Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature
, edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., pp. 322-24. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
Wright, Nathalia. “The Italian Son of Richard Henry Wilde: A Sequel.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
53 (June 1969): 201-4.
———. “Richard Henry Wilde on Greenough’s Washington.” American Literature
27 (January 1956): 556-57.
———, ed. “The Letters of Richard Henry Wilde to Hiram Powers.” Georgia Historical Quarterly
46 (September 1962): 296-316, (December 1962): 417-37. Wilde, Richard Henry. Conjectures and Researches Concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso.
2 vols. New York: Alexander V. Blake, 1842.
———. Hesperia: A Poem.
Edited by William Wilde. The Romantic Tradition in American Literature, advisory ed. Harold Bloom. 1867. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972.
———. Speech of Mr. Wilde, of Georgia, on the bill for removing the Indians from the east to the west side of the Mississippi
. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1830.
———. Speech of Mr. Wilde, on the reasons of the secretary of the treasury for the removal of the deposits
. Washington: N.p., 1834.
———. What Banks Are Constitutional?
N.p.: 1867.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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