David Ritchie (politician)

David Ritchie ( born August 19, 1812 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, † January 24, 1867 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1859 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Ritchie attended until 1829, the Jefferson College in his hometown of Canonsburg. He then studied at the University of Heidelberg in the Grand Duchy of Baden. After a subsequent law degree in 1835 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began working in Pittsburgh in this profession. Politically, he joined the Whig party to. After its dissolution he joined the short-lived opposition party founded in 1854 and then the Republican Party. During his three terms of office in the U.S. House of Representatives, he represented all three parties for one term in the above order.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Ritchie was the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Marshall Howe on March 4, 1853. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Civil War. From 1855 to 1857 he headed the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

In 1862, David Ritchie Associate for nine months Court Judge in Allegheny County. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 24, 1867 in Pittsburgh.