Richard Franchot

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Richard Franchot (June 2, 1816 - November 23, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in the Town of Morris in Otsego County, New York and the son of French immigrant Paschal Franchot, Richard Franchot attended the public schools and the Hartwick and Cherry Valley Academies. He studied civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. He served for some years as president of the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad Co.

Franchot was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862.

He moved to Schenectady, New York, raised the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned colonel on August 23, 1862, and was brevetted brigadier general United States Volunteers on March 13, 1865. He was associated with the Central Pacific Railroad Co.

Franchot died in Schenectady, NY, November 23, 1875. He was interred in Vale Cemetery.

[edit] References

• Richard Franchot at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• Richard Franchot at Find A Grave