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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaRichard Henry WILDE
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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