New York Times
Thursday - 29 June 1933
DR. J.J. RICHARDSON, SPECIALIST, 66, DIES
Personal Physician to Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Harding
and Other Notables.
A Founder of American College of Surgeons - Succumbs in Atlantic City Hotel.
ATLANTIC CITY N.J., June 28 (AP) - Dr. James Julius Richardson, formerly of Washington, recognized as one of the outstanding nose and throat specialists in this country, died after a short illness at a beachfront hotel today. He was 66 years old. Death was attributed to heart disease.
Dr. Richardson came here from Washington about eighteen months ago. He was personal physician to former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Harding and included among his clients such notables as Lord Balfour, Senator Boies Penrose, Senator Albert Beveridge, John W. Davis and many others.
Dr. Richardson was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons and a fellow of the Academy of Surgeons. He was graduated from the University of Maryland at the age of 18 and later studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and in Edinburgh, London and Vienna.
His brother, H. C. Richardson, of New Martinsville, W. Va., accompanied the body back to that city, his boyhood home, late today.
In the Presidential campaign of 1924 Dr. Richardson accompanied John W. Davis, guarding the throat of the Democratic candidate on his speaking trips. He had performed a similar service for William H. Taft in 1908 and 1912.
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Name: James Julius Richardson
Birth - Death: 1868-1933
Source Citation: Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (WhAm 1)
New York Times
Thursday - 29 June 1933
DR. J.J. RICHARDSON, SPECIALIST, 66, DIES
Personal Physician to Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Harding
and Other Notables.
A Founder of American College of Surgeons - Succumbs in Atlantic City Hotel.
ATLANTIC CITY N.J., June 28 (AP) - Dr. James Julius Richardson, formerly of Washington, recognized as one of the outstanding nose and throat specialists in this country, died after a short illness at a beachfront hotel today. He was 66 years old. Death was attributed to heart disease.
Dr. Richardson came here from Washington about eighteen months ago. He was personal physician to former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Harding and included among his clients such notables as Lord Balfour, Senator Boies Penrose, Senator Albert Beveridge, John W. Davis and many others.
Dr. Richardson was one of the founders of the American College of Surgeons and a fellow of the Academy of Surgeons. He was graduated from the University of Maryland at the age of 18 and later studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and in Edinburgh, London and Vienna.
His brother, H. C. Richardson, of New Martinsville, W. Va., accompanied the body back to that city, his boyhood home, late today.
In the Presidential campaign of 1924 Dr. Richardson accompanied John W. Davis, guarding the throat of the Democratic candidate on his speaking trips. He had performed a similar service for William H. Taft in 1908 and 1912.
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Name: James Julius Richardson
Birth - Death: 1868-1933
Source Citation: Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (WhAm 1)
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