HACKETT, RICHARD NATHANIEL, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Wilkesboro, Wilkes
County, N.C., December 4, 1866; attended the Wilkesboro High School, and was
graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1887; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced practice in Wilkesboro,
N.C.; chairman of the Wilkes County Democratic executive committee 1890-1923;
member of the Democratic State executive committee 1890-1923; mayor of
Wilkesboro 1894-1896; represented North Carolina at the centennial of
Washington's inauguration in New York in 1889; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in
North Wilkesboro, N.C.; died in Statesville, N.C., November 22, 1923; interment
in the St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, Wilkesboro, N.C.
