Richard E. S. Toomey (May 1862 – April 17, 1948) was a soldier, poet, civil servant, and lawyer in Washington, DC and Miami, Florida.
[3] His regiment's service in the war was in the US, where he was in charge of the bulk of the drilling and training of his company at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
In 1902, Toomey became the second black person to read at the Congressional Library, after Paul Laurence Dunbar.
His poem, Southern Chivalry, attacks lynching, while The American Negro calls for blacks to be true to the nations ideals.
Ode to Columbia is a poem about the battle of Manila Bay, and Self-Effacement calls on blacks to maintain pride and strength.
[6] Toomey passed the Washington DC bar exam and was admitted to the district court on October 5, 1906.
In 1910, while working in the US Post Office Department, he was charged with criminal libel for a letter he wrote against Dr. A. M.