Harrison H. Riddleberger

Harrison Holt Riddleberger ( born October 4, 1844 in Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia; † January 24, 1890 in Woodstock, Virginia ) was an American politician who represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. Senate.

As a young man, Harrison Riddleberger joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, in which he served for three years and eventually rose to become a captain in the cavalry. After the war he returned to his hometown of Edinburgh, where he became editor of the newspaper Tenth Legion banner. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced as a lawyer in Woodstock.

After he had exercised in 1871 than in 1875 as a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia his first political office, officiated Riddleberger 1876-1880 as a prosecutor in Shenandoah County. From 1879 to 1882 he sat in the state Senate. In the presidential election of 1876 and 1880 he was a member of each of the Electoral College. He also served as editor of Shenandoah Democrat and the Virginian in Woodstock.

Riddleberger was a member of Readjuster Party, a formed by William Mahone Alliance of African Americans, Republicans and Democrats, the politics of Virginia determined in the 1880s. For this party, he was in 1882 elected to the U.S. Senate, to which he belonged for six years until March 3, 1889. As a senator, he agreed generally with the Republicans, whose faction he belonged too; at times he stood before the Committee on Manufactures. In the year after his retirement from the Senate Riddleberger died in Woodstock.