When President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.

At the insistence of Republican Representative Richard Armey, the Act had a number of sunset provisions built in, which were originally set to expire on December 31, 2005.

Pro-silver forces, with congressional leaders such as Missouri Representative Richard P. Bland, sought the passage of bills to allow depositors of silver bullion to receive it back in the form of coin.

* Richard A. Harrison — U. S. Representative from Ohio

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

The five-year depression following the Panic of 1873 caused cheap-money advocates ( led by Representative Richard P. Bland, a Democrat of Missouri ), to join with silver-producing interests in urging a return to bimetallism, the use of both silver and gold as a monetary standard.

On October 12, 1973, following Spiro Agnew's resignation two days earlier, President Richard Nixon nominated Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan to succeed Agnew as Vice President.

* Richard Geist, Republican, Pennsylvania's 79th Representative District

* John T. Johnson-politician, U. S. Representative from Kentucky, brother of Richard M. Johnson.

The county is named for Richard Mentor Johnson, War of 1812 general, United States Representative, Senator, and Vice President of the United States.

* John Richard Rarick, attorney and U. S. Representative from St. Francisville.

* Richard Pombo-former United States Representative

* Richard T. James, Indiana State Representative, State Auditor 2x, Lt.

Land for the town was donated by Richard Menefee, a politician and father of Representative Richard Hickman Menefee, and Thomas Dye Owings, owner of a local iron foundry.

* State Representative ( House District 39A ): Richard J. Hansen

The town is also served in the United States Congress by U. S. Senator Richard Burr ( Republican ), U. S. Senator Kay Hagan ( Democrat ) and U. S. Representative G. K. Butterfield ( Democrat ).

* Richard N. Hackett ( 1866 – 1923 ), Congressional Representative 1907 – 1909.

The peace conference was led by U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and negotiator Richard Holbrooke with two Co-Chairmen in the form of EU Special Representative Carl Bildt and the First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Igor Ivanov.

JINSA's advisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U. S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith were all on JINSA's Board of Advisors before they entered the Bush administration.

* Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan, 2nd Baron Lucan, 8th Baronet ( 1764 – 1839 ) ( elected a Representative Peer in 1800 )

* Lewis Richard Morris ( 1760 – 1825 ), U. S. Representative from Vermont

The Endowment's board includes a wide range of people who have previously held positions in Congress such as former Congressman Richard Gephardt and Martin Frost ; Senator Norm Coleman, and U. S. Representative Gregory Meeks.

His paternal uncles were Richard Mentor Johnson, a US Representative and Senator, and Vice President of the United States under Martin Van Buren ; and his brothers James and John Telemachus, who were each elected as US Representatives from Kentucky.

* 1995 — George E. Brown, Jr. ( Democrat Representative )

* Representative Gary Alexander — Position 2, Republican

* Lucien Anderson — U. S. Representative

* Alben W. Barkley — U. S. Representative, Senator, and Vice President

* Andrew Boone — U. S. Representative

* Noble Jones Gregory — U. S. Representative

* William Voris Gregory — U. S. Representative

* Carroll Hubbard — U. S. Representative

It is one of three parishes — the others are neighboring Red River and St. Bernard near New Orleans – to have rejected the successful GOP gubernatorial candidate, U. S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007.

* Paul Newman — Current Arizona Corporation Commissioner, former State Representative, former Cochise County Supervisor.

* George Darden — United States Representative from Georgia who went to high school in Sparta

* Aylette Buckner — U. S. Representative from Kentucky

* Chittenden Lyon — U. S. Representative

* Silas Reynolds Barton — U. S. Representative from Nebraska

* Eugene Jerome Hainer — U. S. Representative from Nebraska

* Samuel Snider — U. S. Representative from Minnesota

* John Hall Buchanan, Jr. — Representative of Alabama's 6th Congressional District, U. S. House of Representatives 1965-1981, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations 1973 and 1984, Member of the United States delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1978-1980

* Edward H. Tarrant — Representative of Red River County, Texas in the Texas House of Representatives September-December 1837, Chief Justice of Red River County, Texas 1838, Brigadier General of Fourth Brigade Northeast Texas Defenders, Texas House of Representatives 1849-1853, namesake of Tarrant County, Texas

* James M. Collins — U. S. Representative from Dallas County, 1968 – 1983

* J. J. Pickle-Democratic United States Representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1963 — 1995

While the term " stockbroker " is still in use, more common terms are " broker ", " financial advisor ", " registered rep ." or simply " rep ." — the latter being abbreviations of the official Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA ) designation " Registered Representative ," obtained by passing the FINRA General Securities Representative Exam ( also known as the " Series 7 exam ") and being employed (" associated with ") a registered broker-dealer, also called a brokerage firm or ( in the case of some larger money center broker / dealers ) a " wirehouse ", typically a FINRA member firm.

Critics point out that the Afghan conflict has contributed to the destabilization of neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan itself is far from at peace — Lord Ashdown, British diplomat and former international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, has gone as far as to describe the country as " a failed state ".