- Richard W. Blue
Richard Whiting Blue (
September 8 ,1841 -January 28 ,1907 ) was a U.S. Representative fromKansas .Born near
Parkersburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), Blue worked on a farm in the summertime and studied in the select schools of that locality during the winter season.He attendedMonongalia Academy ,Morgantown, Virginia , in 1859 and Washington (Pennsylvania) College until his enlistment, onJune 29 ,1863 , as a private in Company A,Third Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War.He became second and then first lieutenant of the company. Honorably dischargedMay 22 ,1866 , atLeavenworth, Kansas , when he returned to Grafton, W.Virginia.He taught school.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in Virginia, and commenced practice inLinn County, Kansas , in 1871. Probate judge of Linn County 1872-1876. County attorney 1876-1880.He served as member of the State senate 1880-1888.Blue was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (
March 4 ,1895 -March 3 ,1897 ).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.He engaged in the practice of law until his death inBartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma,January 28 ,1907 .He was interred in Pleasanton Cemetery,Pleasanton, Kansas .References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.