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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisRichard YATES
(1815-1873)
Senate Years of Service:
1865-1871Party: RepublicanYATES, Richard, (father of
Richard Yates [1860-1936]), a Representative and a Senator from
Illinois; born in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Ky., January 18, 1815;
attended the common schools; moved to Illinois in 1831; graduated
from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill, in 1835; studied law at
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; admitted to the bar in
1837 and commenced practice in Jacksonville, Ill.; member, State
house of representatives 1842-1845, 1848-1849; elected as a Whig to
the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March
3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the
Thirty-fourth Congress; Governor of Illinois 1861-1865;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1863; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871; was not a candidate
for reelection; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(Thirty-ninth and Forty-first Congresses), Committee on Territories
(Fortieth Congress); appointed by President Ulysses Grant as a
United States commissioner to inspect a land subsidy railroad; died
suddenly in St. Louis, Mo., November 27, 1873; interment in Diamond
Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hartman, Linda. “The Issue of Freedom in
Illinois Under Gov. Richard Yates, 1861-1865.” Journal of
the Illinois State Historical Society 57 (Autumn 1964): 293-97;
Yates, Richard [1860-1936], and Catherine Pickering Yates.
Richard Yates, Civil War Governor. Edited by John H.
Krenkel. Danville, IL: Interstate Printers & Publishers,
1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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