Richard Merrill Atkinson

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Richard Merrill Atkinson (February 6, 1894 - April 29, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Atkinson attended the public schools. He was graduated from Wallace University School, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1912, from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1916, and from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1917. He was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1920. During the First World War served from June 30, 1917, until honorably discharged on August 29, 1919, as a member of the Forty-seventh Company, United States Marine Corps, Second Division, serving in France with the American Expeditionary Forces. Attorney general of the tenth judicial circuit of Tennessee from September 1, 1926, to September 1, 1934. State commissioner of Smoky Mountain National Park 1931-1933.

Atkinson was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938. He engaged in the practice of law in Nashville, Tennessee, until his death there on April 29, 1947. He was interred in Spring Hill Cemetery.

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• Richard Merrill Atkinson at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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• Richard Merrill Atkinson at Find A Grave