Richard Yates

Birth Date

1815-01-18

Death Date

1873-11-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Morgan County, Illinois, attorney, governor, and legislator. Gallatin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Henry Yates. Married to Catherine Geers Yates in Morgan County, Illinois, on July 11, 1839. Father of William Yates, Henry Yates, Mary Yates, Catherine Yates, and Richard Yates. Graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1835. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1837. Attorney in Morgan County, Illinois, in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the Seventh Congressional District of Illinois from 1851 to 1855. Attorney in Morgan County in 1860. Employed Martha Murphy as a servant in Morgan County in 1860. Governor of Illinois from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1865. Member of the United States Senate from Illinois from 1865 to 1871.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Morgan County, Jacksonville, p. 170A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Morgan County, Jacksonville, p. 404.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Morgan County, Jacksonville, p. 460A.
Illinois Marriage Records, Morgan County Courthouse, Jacksonville, Illinois, Morgan County Marriages, Film 007619742.
"Richard Yates,” Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Carroll County, vol. 3, ed. Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, and Charles L. Hostetter (Chicago, IL: Munsell Publishing Company, 1913), 603.
“Richard Yates’ Mother Dies,” The Kenney Gazette (Kenney, IL), October 16, 1908.
"Richard Yates (1815-1873)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present, accessed April, 11, 2021, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/Y000012.
"Richard Yates (1815-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial #6624690, accessed May 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6624690.

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