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James P. Richards

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Early life and World War One
Lawyer and judge
Congressman
Later life
References

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| image = James Richards portrait, 1956.jpg
| state = South Carolina
| district = 5th
| term_start = March 4, 1933
| term_end = January 3, 1957
| preceded = William F. Stevenson
| succeeded = Robert W. Hemphill
|office2 = Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
|term_start2 = January 3, 1951
|term_end2 = January 3, 1953
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|term_end3 = January 3, 1957
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| party = Democratic
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| birth_place = Liberty Hill, South Carolina
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|2|21|1894|8|31}}
| death_place = Lancaster, South Carolina
| spouse =
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|unit = 118th Regiment, 30th Division
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James Prioleau "Dick" Richards (August 31, 1894 – February 21, 1979) was a lawyer, judge, and Democrat U.S. Representative from South Carolina between 1933 and 1957.^[1] He later served as a special ambassador under Republican President Eisenhower.

Early life and World War One

Born in Liberty Hill, South Carolina, Richards attended in-state county schools and Clemson College, in Clemson. During the First World War, Richards served overseas as a private, corporal, sergeant, and second lieutenant in the Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Thirtieth Division from 1917 to 1919.

Lawyer and judge

Richards graduated from the law department of the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1921 and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing practice in Lancaster, South Carolina. He served as judge of the probate court of Lancaster County, South Carolina from 1923 to 1933.

Congressman

Richards was elected as a Democrat to the seventy-third Congress and reelected to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1957).

A confidential 1943 analysis of the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Isaiah Berlin for the British Foreign Office described Richards as having "supported the Administration on foreign policy before and after Pearl Harbour all the way with the single exception of the vote on lifting belligerent zones for American ships three weeks before Pearl Harbour ... Probably internationalist rather than nationalist in outlook."^[2] During the Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 1953 Richards served as delegate to the Japanese Peace Conference and United States delegate to the United Nations. Hoping to retire from Congress, he was not a candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.

Later life

He served as special assistant to President Eisenhower, January 1957-January 1958, for the Middle East, following announcement of the Eisenhower Doctrine.^[3] With this position, Richards held rank of ambassador. Following this, he resided in Lancaster, South Carolina and resumed the practice of law. Richards died there on February 21, 1979 and was interred in Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Liberty Hill, S. C.

References

1. ^James P. Richards
2. ^{{cite journal | url=http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/singles/bib139a/bib139a.pdf | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021185357/http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/singles/bib139a/bib139a.pdf | archivedate=2013-10-21 | title=American Profiles on Capitol Hill: A Confidential Study for the British Foreign Office in 1943 | author=Hachey, Thomas E. | journal=Wisconsin Magazine of History |date=Winter 1973–1974 | volume=57 | issue=2 | pages=141–153 | jstor=4634869}}
3. ^FOREIGN RELATIONS: Doctrine's First Fruits Time, April 29, 1957

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