| LC control no. | n 88224242 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Richards, James P. (James Prioleau), 1894-1979 |
| Variant(s) | Richards, James P. Richards, Dick, 1894-1979 |
| Birth date | 18940831 |
| Death date | 19790221 |
| Place of birth | Liberty Hill (S.C.) |
| Place of death | Lancaster (S.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army United States. Congress. House |
| Profession or occupation | Baseball players Lawyers Legislators--United States |
| Found in | NUCMC data from U. of SC, Caroliniana Lib. for His Papers, 1932-1974 (Richards, James Prioleau, 1894-1979; Dick Richards; US Congressman; of South Carolina) Bio. Am. cong., 1961 (Richards, James Prioleau, rep. from South Carolina; b. Liberty Hill, S.C., 1894; judge probate court Lancaster County, S.C., 1923-1933; democrat in congress 1933-1957; delegate to the Japanese Peace Conference; spec. asst. to Pres. Eisenhower, 1957-1958; home: Heath Springs, S.C.); Appendix, 1789-1982 (d. 1979) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Richards, James P.; usage: James P. Richards) WWWA, 1977-1981 (Richards, James Prioleau, ambassador; m. Katharine H. Wylie, 1925; ambassador American Mission to the Middle East from 1957; chmn. Fgn. Affairs Comm., 1951-1953; d. 1979) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, November 11, 2013 (Richards, James Prioleau (1894 - 1979); a Representative from South Carolina; born in Liberty Hill, Kershaw County, S.C., August 31, 1894; attended the county schools and Clemson College, Clemson, S.C.; during the First World War served overseas as a private, corporal, sergeant, and second lieutenant in the Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Thirtieth Division, 1917-1919; professional baseball player; graduated from the law department of the University of South Carolina,Columbia, 1921; admitted to the bar in 1921; lawyer, private practice; judge of the probate court of Lancaster County, S.C., 1923-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1957); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; delegate to the Japanese Peace Conference and United States delegate to the United Nations in 1953; special assistant to President Eisenhower, January 1957-January 1958, for the Middle East, with rank of ambassador; resumed the practice of law; resided in Lancaster, S.C., where he died February 21, 1979) |
| Associated language | eng |
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