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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriRichard BARTHOLDT
(1855-1932)
BARTHOLDT, Richard, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Schleiz, Germany, November 2,
1855; attended the public schools and Schleiz College (Gymnasium);
immigrated to the United States in April 1872 and settled in
Brooklyn, N.Y.; learned the printing trade and became a newspaper
writer and publisher; moved to Missouri and settled in St. Louis in
1877; was connected with several papers as reporter, legislative
correspondent, and editor, and at the time of his election to
Congress was editor in chief of the St. Louis Tribune; member of
the St. Louis Board of Education from 1888 to 1892, serving as
president from 1890 to 1892; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1893-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Immigration and
Naturalization (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Levees and
Improvements of the Mississippi River (Fifty-fifth through
Fifty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); in 1911 was appointed
by President Taft as a special envoy to the German Emperor to
present a statue of Baron Steuben as a gift from Congress and the
American people; was not a candidate for renomination in 1914;
engaged in literary pursuits; served as chairman of the Republican
State convention at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1896; elected president of
the Interparliamentary Union at the conference held in St. Louis in
1904, and for many years was president of the arbitration group in
Congress, which he founded in 1903; died in St. Louis, Mo., March
19, 1932; his body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bartholdt, Richard. From Steerage to Congress; Reminiscences and
Reflections. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1930.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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