Harrison H. Riddleberger

Harrison H. Riddleberger

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

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

After he had exercised his first political mandate from 1871 to 1875 as a member of the Virginia House of Representatives , Riddleberger served as a prosecutor in Shenandoah County between 1876 and 1880 . From 1879 to 1882 he then sat in the State Senate . In the presidential elections in 1876 and 1880 he was a member of the Electoral College . He was also the editor of the Shenandoah Democrat and the Virginian in Woodstock.

Riddleberger was a member of the Readjuster Party , an alliance of African Americans , Republicans and Democrats formed by William Mahone that determined the politics of Virginia in the 1880s. For this party he was elected to the US Senate in 1882, to which he was a member for six years until March 3, 1889. As a senator, he usually voted with the Republicans, whose faction he also belonged to; At times he was in charge of the Committee on Manufactures . The year after he left the Senate, Riddleberger died in Woodstock.

Web links

• Harrison H. Riddleberger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harrison H. Riddleberger in the database of Find a Grave (English)