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Richards returned to the Netherlands as the presiding elder over the mission, accompanied by his wife Ina Jane Ashton Richards, from 1914 to 1916. Richards was ordained a high priest and bishop on June 29, 1919, by Charles W. Penrose, and presided over a Salt Lake City ward from 1920 to 1925. In 1926, he filled a short term mission primarily serving in Rhode Island. In about 1930 Church President Heber J. Grant sent Richards to southern California with the plan to call him as stake president. However the then-current stake president called Richards as a bishop and convinced Grant to hold off on calling him as the stake president so local members would not feel as if Richards was an outsider being imposed on them. Between 1931 and 1933, Richards presided over the Hollywood Stake.
In 1933 and 1934 Richards again lived in Salt Lake City, where he served on the stake high council of the Liberty Stake. He was called to this position by stake president Bryant S. Hinckley. Following this Richards served as president of the Southern States Mission from 1934 to 1937. He was called to this position to replace Charles A. Callis who had been called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Richards served as presiding bishop during and after the Second World War and began to adopt building programs to deal with the massive post-war growth in membership of the church.
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