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Show GOVERNOR RICHARDS DEAD. Wyoming's Executive Passes Away' at His Home in Cheyenne. Governor Deforest Richards died at his home in Cheyenne, Wyo., at 8 o'clock Tuesday of acute kidney disease. dis-ease. Governor Richards was born at Charleston, N. H., August 6, 1846. Hia father was a Congregational minister-After minister-After finishing his schooling at Phillips Phil-lips Andover academy, he went to-Alabama to-Alabama and engaged in cotton-raising. There he was sheriff, lawmaker and county treasurer In turn. In 188S he established himself at Chadron,. Neb., organizing the Chadron National bank. In 1886 he came to Douglas, Converse county, Wyoming ,and established es-tablished the First National bank. He was elected mayor of the town, then state senator, and In 1898 was elected governor on the Republican ticket,, succeeding himself In 1902. The governor's gov-ernor's chair now falls to Finnimore-Chatterton, Finnimore-Chatterton, secretary of state, as there is no lieutenant governor In. Wyoming. |