David Plunket Richardson (May 28, 1833 – June 21, 1904) was a U.S. Representative

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 from New York

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Born in Macedon, New York

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, Richardson attended the common school and the local academy at Macedon. He was graduated from Yale College

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 in 1856. He studied law in Rochester, New York

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He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1859, and practiced. He entered the Union Army

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 in 1861, and served over three years. He moved to Angelica, New York

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, in 1866.

Richardson was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-sixth

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 and Forty-seventh

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 Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1882.

He resumed the practice of law in Angelica, New York

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, where he died on June 21, 1904. He was interred in Angelica Cemetery.

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