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<p><span class="autocomment">top: </span> prepended &#039;Use mdy dates&#039; tag</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|American politician (1878–1955)}}<br /> {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}<br /> {{no footnotes|date=June 2020}}<br /> <br /> {{Infobox officeholder<br /> |name = Richard Ely Bird<br /> |image = RichardElyBird.jpg<br /> |caption =<br /> |state = [[Kansas]]<br /> |district = {{ushr|Kansas|8|8th}}<br /> |term_start = March 4, 1921<br /> |term_end = March 4, 1923 <br /> |predecessor = [[William Augustus Ayres]]<br /> |successor = [[William Augustus Ayres]]<br /> |birth_name = <br /> |birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|11|4}}<br /> |birth_place = [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]<br /> |death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|1|10|1878|11|4}}<br /> |death_place = [[Long Beach, California]]<br /> |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Richard Ely Bird&#039;&#039;&#039; (November 4, 1878 – January 10, 1955) was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] for the 8th District of [[Kansas]] from 1921 to 1923. Bird was born in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]] on November 4, 1878. He moved with his parents to [[Wichita, Kansas]] in 1887 and attended the public schools there. He was graduated from Wichita High School in 1898. Bird later studied law and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1901. He opened his legal practice in Wichita. In 1916 he became a judge of the district court of the 18th Judicial District of Kansas and was serving in that capacity when elected to congress during the [[Warren G. Harding]] presidential landslide of 1920.<br /> <br /> Bird unseated incumbent Democratic Congressman [[William Augustus Ayres|William Ayres]] by a narrow margin of 30,076 (49.4%) to 29,899 (49.1%). Bird&#039;s victory meant that all eight Kansas congressional districts would be represented by Republicans. Rep. Bird would lose his reelection bid in 1922 by a margin of 37,581 (62%) to 22,721 (38%) against former Congressman Ayres and thus resumed the practice of law. Bird ran once more for congress in 1928 against Rep. Ayres but lost by a total of 46,117 (58%) to 32,802 (42%) despite the [[Herbert Hoover]] Republican landslide. He retired from public life in 1937 and moved to [[Long Beach, California]], where he died on January 10, 1955. He is buried in Maplegrove Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> {{congbio|B000479}}<br /> *{{Find a Grave|6635522}}<br /> <br /> {{s-start}}<br /> {{s-par|us-hs}}<br /> {{US House succession box<br /> | state = Kansas <br /> | district = 8<br /> | before = [[William Augustus Ayres|William A. Ayres]]<br /> | after = [[William Augustus Ayres|William A. Ayres]]<br /> | years = March 4, 1921&amp;ndash;March 3, 1923<br /> }}<br /> {{s-end}}<br /> <br /> {{KansasUSRepresentatives}}<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Bird, Richard Ely}}<br /> [[Category:1878 births]]<br /> [[Category:1955 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Politicians from Cincinnati]]<br /> [[Category:Politicians from Wichita, Kansas]]<br /> [[Category:Kansas lawyers]]<br /> [[Category:Kansas state court judges]]<br /> [[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas]]<br /> [[Category:California Republicans]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Kansas-politician-stub}}</div>

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