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{{Redirect|Richard Wilde|the TV presenter using the name "Richard Wilde"|Richard Wilkins (TV presenter)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| 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.
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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
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