John Ritter (February 6, 1779 – November 24, 1851) was a
Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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John Ritter was born in
Exeter, Pennsylvania
Exeter is a borough in the Greater Pittston-Wilkes-Barre area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, about west of Scranton and a few miles north of Wilkes-Barre. It is located on the western bank of the Susquehanna River and has a total ...
. He received a limited schooling and apprenticed as a printer. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1836.
Ritter was elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in
1846
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom.
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. He served as editor and publisher of the ''Adler'', a German newspaper, at
Reading, Pennsylvania. He died in Reading in 1851. Interment in Reading's
Charles Evans Cemetery
Charles Evans Cemetery is an historic, nonsectarian, garden-style cemetery located in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Charles Evans (1768-1847), a son of Quaker parents and native of Philadelphia who became a prominent attorn ...
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Sources
The Political Graveyard
External links
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1779 births
1851 deaths
People from Exeter, Pennsylvania
American people of German descent
Burials at Charles Evans Cemetery
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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