John Ritter (February 6, 1779 – November 24, 1851) was a Democratic member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...

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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

. John Ritter was born in

Exeter, Pennsylvania Exeter is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in the Greater Pittston-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre area of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, about west of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton and a few miles north of Wilkes-Bar ...

. 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. * January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway's bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon betwee ...

. He served as editor and publisher of the ''Adler'', a German newspaper, at

Reading, Pennsylvania Reading ( ; ) is a city in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, fourth-most populous ...

. He died in Reading in 1851. Interment in Reading's

Charles Evans Cemetery Charles Evans Cemetery is a 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 attorne ...

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The Political Graveyard

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* 1779 births 1851 deaths People from Exeter, Pennsylvania People from Reading, Pennsylvania American people of German descent Burials at Charles Evans Cemetery Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania American newspaper editors 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub