Yates, Richard

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Richard Yates
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    5
    Family
    Henry Yates (father), Millicent Yates (mother), Catharine Geers (wife)
    Education
    Transylvania
    Other
    Other Education
    Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Republican
    Government
    Grant Administration (1869-77)
    US Senate
    US House of Representatives
    Governor
    State legislature

    Richard Yates (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    YATES, 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.
    “Yates, Richard,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000012.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Hartman, Linda. “The Issue of Freedom in Illinois Under Gov. Richard Yates, 1861-1865.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 57 (Autumn 1964): 293-297. view record
    Northrup, Jack. “Gov. Richard Yates and Pres. Lincoln.” Lincoln Herald 70 (Winter 1968): 193-206. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Yates, Richard," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6928.