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Line 1: {{Redirect\|Richard Wilde\|the TV presenter using the name "Richard Wilde"\|Richard Wilkins (TV presenter)}} {{Infobox officeholder ~~[[File:RichardHenryWilde.jpg\|thumb\|Richard Henry Wilde]]~~ \| name = Richard Henry Wilde \| image = RichardHenryWilde.jpg \| alt = \| caption = \| state = [[Georgia]] \| district = [[Georgia's at-large congressional district\|at-large]] \| term_start = March 4, 1815 \| term_end = March 3, 1817 \| predecessor = [[William Barnett (Georgia politician)\|William Barnett]] \| successor = [[Joel Abbot (politician)\|Joel Abbot]] \| state2 = Georgia \| district2 = at-large \| term_start2 = February 7, 1825 \| term_end2 = March 3, 1825 \| predecessor2 = [[Thomas Willis Cobb]] \| successor2 = [[James Meriwether]] \| state3 = Georgia \| district3 = [[Georgia's 2nd congressional district\|2nd]] \| term_start3 = November 17, 1827 \| term_end3 = March 3, 1829 \| predecessor3 = [[John Forsyth (politician)\|John Forsyth]] \| successor3 = ''Redistricted to At Large Districts'' \| state4 = Georgia \| district4 = at-large \| term_start4 = March 4, 1829 \| term_end4 = March 3, 1835 \| predecessor4 = ''Redistricted'' \| successor4 = [[John W. A. Sanford]] \| birth_date = {{birth date\|1789\|9\|24}} \| birth_place = [[Dublin, Ireland]] \| death_date = {{death date and age\|1847\|9\|10\|1789\|9\|24}} \| death_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], United States \| resting_place = City Cemetery, [[Augusta, Georgia]], United States \| party = [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)\|Democratic-Republican]] }} '''Richard Henry Wilde''' (September 24, 1789 – September 10, 1847) was a [[United States Representative]] and lawyer from [[Georgia (U.S. state)\|Georgia]]. ==Biography== Wilde was born in [[Dublin, Ireland]], in 1789 to Richard Wilde and Mary Newitt, but came to America at age eight<ref name = "adv">"[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=11674DF65FA1BB88&p_docnum=1&s_dlid=DL0108022818405308922&s_ecproduct=SUB-FREE&s_ecprodtype=INSTANT&s_subterm=Subscription%20until%3A%2012%2F14%2F2015%2011%3A59%20PM&s_subexpires=12%2F14%2F2015%2011%3A59%20PM&s_username=freeuser&s_accountid=AC0107071613143204025&s_upgradeable=no Old New Haven]", Juliet Lapidos, ''[[The Advocate]]'', March 17, 2005</ref> and moved to [[Augusta, Georgia]], in 1802. His brother was Judge John W. Wilde, a judge of Augusta, Georgia. He was a businessman and studied law. After gaining admittance to the state [[bar (law)\|bar]] in 1809, Wilde practiced law in Augusta. He served as the solicitor general of the superior court of [[Richmond County, Georgia]], and was also the attorney general of Georgia from 1811 to 1813 as a result of holding the Richmond County position. In 1814, Wilde was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)\|Democratic-Republican]] Representative to the [[14th United States Congress]] and served one term from March 4, 1815 until March 3, 1817, as he lost his reelection campaign in 1816. Upon [[Thomas W. Cobb]]'s resignation, Wilde successfully ran as a Crawford Republican to fill that seat in the [[18th United States Congress\|18th Congress]] and served only a month from February 7, 1825, to March 3, 1825. After several more unsuccessful Congressional campaigns in 1824 and 1826, Wilde ran again in 1827 as a Jacksonian to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[John Forsyth (politician)\|John Forsyth]] and won election to fill that term. He was reelected to three additional terms ([[21st United States Congress\|21st]], [[22nd United States Congress\|22nd]] and [[23rd United States Congress\|23rd]] Congresses) in that seat and served from November 17, 1827, to March 3, 1835. Wilde lost his reelection campaign in 1834 and traveled in Europe from 1835 to 1840. In 1843, he moved to [[New Orleans]], returned to the practice of law and served as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Louisiana at New Orleans (current-day [[Tulane University]]). Wilde died in New Orleans on September 10, 1847, and was interred in a vault in a cemetery in New Orleans. In 1854, he was reinterred at Sand Hill family burying ground near Augusta and then reinterred an additional time in 1886 in ~~the~~ Augusta's City Cemetery. ==Writings==

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