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ANDERSON, Richard Clough, Jr. (1788-1826)

Democrat-Republican of Kentucky

8th congressional district

Served in House 1817-1821

Total roll-call votes cast: 224

Biography

Representative from Kentucky; born at "Soldiers' Retreat," near Louisville, Ky., August 4, 1788; attended private schools; graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1804; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Louisville; member of the Kentucky state house of representatives in 1815; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1820; again a member of the Kentucky state house of representatives, in 1821 and 1822, serving as speaker the latter year; appointed the first United States Minister to the Republic of Colombia January 27, 1823; took his leave June 7, 1823, having been commissioned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Panama Congress of Nations, but died, en route to his post, in Turbaco, near Cartagena, Colombia, July 24, 1826; interment at "Soldiers' Retreat," near Louisville, Ky.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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