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Yates, Richard
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Yates, Richard, 1815–73, American political leader, b. Warsaw, Ky. He studied law and became a lawyer and Whig politician in Jacksonville, Ill. A state legislator (1842–46, 1848–50) and U.S. Congressman (1851–55), he failed to win reelection because of his adherence to the new Republican party. As governor of Illinois (1861–65), Yates was active in raising troops (he gave Ulysses S. Grant his first Civil War commission) and managed to hold in check the powerful pro-Southern group in Illinois. In the U.S. Senate from 1865 to 1871, he supported the radical Republican program.
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Illinois Board of Pardons to Governor Richard Yates, April 20, 1904, in Petition File of Harvey Van Dine for Commutation of Death Sentence, Illinois Board of Pardons, Executive Clemency Files, Illinois State Archives; Chicago Daily News, October 14,1916.
"It is his first offense. We might as well let him go": homicide and ... by Adler, Jeffrey S. / Journal of Social History
As Blake Bailey notes in ``A Tragic Honesty,'' his acclaimed biography of novelist Richard Yates, ``People rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching characters in the very act of giving themselves away.
'NIP/TUCK' HAS GUTS - AND PLENTY OF THEM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In the acknowledgments to Women with Men, Ford ended with his gratitude to Richard Yates, "a writer too little appreciated.
BREAKING THE SIXTH by Pritchard, William H. / Commonweal
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