Richard P. Herrick

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Richard Platt Herrick (March 23, 1791 - June 20, 1846) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Greenbush (now Rensselaer), Rensselaer County, New York, Herrick served as member of the State assembly in 1839.

Herrick was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 20, 1846. He was interred in Greenbush Cemetery, Greenbush (now Rensselaer), New York.

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