Richard S. Emmet Jr.

Richard Stockton Emmet Jr. (March 10, 1871 – February 7, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Emmet was born on March 10, 1871, in New Rochelle, New York. He was the son of Richard Stockton Emmet (1821–1902) and Katherine "Kitty" (née Temple) Emmet (1843–1895). Among his brothers were William T. Emmet and diplomat Grenville T. Emmet.

His great-grandfather was New York Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet. Among his large extended family was first cousins Col. Robert Temple Emmet, Rosina Emmet Sherwood (mother of playwright Robert E. Sherwood), William LeRoy Emmet, Devereux Emmet, Lydia Field Emmet, Jane Emmet de Glehn (wife of Wilfrid de Glehn), Christopher Temple Emmet (husband of Alida Beekman Chanler, daughter of John Winthrop Chanler).

He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Columbia Law School. he was admitted to the bar, and practiced with Emmet & Robinson, the law office of his father. Together, they were the parents of one child: Mary Olyphant Emmet (born 1895).

He died of typhoid fever during the legislative session, at his lodgings in Albany, New York, on February 7, 1897. After his death, his widow remarried to Harvard graduate and banker, Philip Curtis in 1899.