Candidate for U. S. House

Prof. James P. Richardson '99, member of the Political Science department since 1917, announced his candidacy for the office of United States Representative from the second district of New Hampshire fol. lowing announcement by U. S. Representative Charles W. Tobey on April 12 that he would seek the U. S. senatorial nomination in the Republican primary next Sep. tember. Five other Republican candidates also entered the political arena immedi. ately following Representative Tobey's announcement. Professor Richardson has stated that if he receives the nomination and is elected to the House, he will relinquish teaching and will devote full time to the job in Washington.

With the exception of Prof. Stearns Morse of the English department, who ran for the United States Senate on the Farmer-Laborite ticket in the fall of 1936, Professor Richardson is believed to be the first member of the faculty to engage actively in politics since before the Civil War. Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1899, he received his law degree from Boston University in 1902 and for the next 15 years practiced law in Boston. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1917 as Parker Professor of Law and Political Science.

As part of his record of public service, Professor Richardson was one of the representatives of the City of Newton in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917-18, was a member of the Executive Committee of the New Hampshire Committee of Public Safety in 1918-19, was one of the New Hampshire members of the New England Railroad Committee in 1922-23, was a member of the Commission to investigate taxation of banks in 1925-26, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1925 and 1927, was a member of the Special Recess Taxation Commission from 1927 to 1930, was a member of the so-called Crime Commission in 1933, and has been chairman of the Finance Committee of the Town of Hanover from 1932 to 1938.