Background
Richberg, Donald Randall was born on July 10, 1881 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Carl and Eloise Olivia (Randall) Richberg.
Richberg, Donald Randall was born on July 10, 1881 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Carl and Eloise Olivia (Randall) Richberg.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1901. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1904, Doctor of Laws, Knox College, 1935.
1 daughter, Eloise (Mistress A. A. Campbell). Practiced at Chicago, 1904-1933. Republican nominee for judge of Circuit Court, 1915.
Special counsel City of Chicago, in gas litigation, 1915-1927.
Master in chancery Circuit Court of Cook County, 1916-1919. Chief counsel for railway unions in government injunction suit, 1922.
General counsel for National Conference on Valuation of Railroads, 1923-1933, for Railway Labor Executives Association, 1926-1933. Sustained constitutionality of trial by jury in contempt cases before Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1924, Railway Labor Acting, 1930, State Full Crew Laws, 1931.
Argued O’Fallon Railroad valuation case as amicus curiæ, in Supreme Court, 1929, National Rifle Association case special assistant attorney general, 1935.
Right-to-work cases, 1949. Rumely free press case, 1953. Company-author Railway Labor Acting passed by Congress, 1926, and National Industrial Recovery Acting of 1933.
Special assistant attorney general Arizona, 1929-1933.
General counsel National Rifle Association, 1933-1935. Executive director National Emergency Council, 1934-1935.
Chairman National Rifle Association Board, 1935. Resigned to resume law practice, June 1935, special assistant to attorney general United States, 1936.
Member of the firm Davies, Richberg, Tydings and Landa, Washington, since 1936.
Lecturer University of Virginia Law School, 1949-1952. Trustee American University, 1947-1951. Director National Legislative Reference Bureau, Progressive Party, 1913-1914, chairman resolution committee Progressive Convention, Cleveland, 1924.
Executive chairman National Progressive League, 1932-1936.
Chairman Committee on Commerce, American Bar Association, 1938-1939.
Clubs: University, Tavern, Law.
Married Florence Weed, December 24, 1924.