Richard B. Wigglesworth

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WIGGLESWORTH, Richard Bowditch, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., April 25, 1891; was graduated from Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., in 1908, from Harvard University in 1912, and from the law department of the same university in 1916; assistant private secretary to the Governor General of the Philippine Islands in 1913; admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in Boston, Mass.; during the First World War served overseas as captain, Battery E, and as commanding officer, First Battalion, Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, Seventy-sixth Division, 1917-1919; legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of foreign loans and railway payments, and secretary of the World War Debt Commission 1922-1924; assistant to the agent general for reparation payments, Berlin, Germany, 1924-1927; general counsel and Paris representative for organizations created under the Dawes plan in 1927 and 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Louis A. Frothingham; reelected to the Seventy-first and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1928, until his resignation November 13, 1958; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; United States Ambassador to Canada from January 28, 1959, until his death in Boston, Mass., October 22, 1960; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Preceded by:
Louis A. Frothingham		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 14th congressional district
November 6, 1928 – March 3, 1933		 Succeeded by:
Joseph William Martin, Jr.
Preceded by:
Robert Luce		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 13th congressional district
March 4, 1933 – November 13, 1958		 Succeeded by:
James A. Burke
Preceded by:
Livingston T. Merchant		 United States Ambassador to Canada
January 28, 1959 – October 22, 1960		 Succeeded by:
Livingston T. Merchant
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