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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJohn RITTER
(1779-1851)
RITTER, John, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Exeter, Pa., February 6,
1779; received a limited schooling; apprenticed as a printer;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1836; elected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4,
1843-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination in 1846;
editor and publisher of the Adler, a German newspaper, at Reading;
died in Reading, Berks County, Pa., November 24, 1851; interment in
the Charles Evans Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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