Richard Franchot (June 2, 1816 - November 23, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Morris, New York, Franchot attended the public schools and the Hartwick and Cherry Valley Academies. He studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He served for some years as president of the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad Co.

Franchot was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862. He moved to Schenectady, New York, raised the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned colonel on August 23, 1862, and was brevetted brigadier general United States Volunteers on March 13, 1865. He was associated with the Central Pacific Railroad Co.. He died in Schenectady, New York, November 23, 1875. He was interred in Vale Cemetery.

Source

• Richard Franchot at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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