Richard Hansen Franchot (June 2, 1816 – November 23, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

[1] He attended the public schools and the Hartwick and Cherry Valley Academies.

He studied civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York.

[2] Franchot was commissioned as a colonel on August 23, 1862, and was brevetted as a brigadier general of U.S.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress