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| Name | Richard Yates, Jr. |
| Address | 857 West State Street
Jacksonville, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 12, 1860
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| Died | April 11, 1936
(75 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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| Info | born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., December 12, 1860; attended public schools and Illinois Woman's College, Jacksonville, Ill., 1870-1874; city editor of the Daily Courier in 1878 and 1879, and of the Daily Journal 1881-1883; was graduated from the Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1880 and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1884; commenced practice in Jacksonville, Ill.; city attorney of Jacksonville 1885-1890; private in Company I, Fifth Infantry, Illinois National Guard 1885-1890; county judge of Morgan County 1894-1897; United States collector of internal revenue for the eighth internal revenue district 1897-1900; Governor of Illinois 1901-1904; member of the State public utilities commission 1914-1917; assistant attorney general of the State of Illinois in 1917 and 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful for renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress but was later appointed nominee and elected in place of Henry R. Rathbone, deceased; unsuccessful for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resided in Harbor Springs, Mich., and Springfield, Ill., while engaged in writing his memoirs; died in Springfield, Ill., April 11, 1936; interment in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ill.
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