Haywood Yancey Riddle

Haywood Yancey Riddle

Haywood Yancey Riddle (born June 20, 1834 in Van Buren , Hardeman County , Tennessee , †  March 28, 1879 in Lebanon , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Haywood Riddle studied at Union University in Murfreesboro until 1854 . At this university he taught mathematics and some foreign languages ​​for some time. He then studied law at Cumberland University in Lebanon. In 1857, he was first in Ripley in the state of Mississippi was admitted. In 1858 he moved to Smith County , Tennessee, where he worked in agriculture. Between 1861 and 1865 he was a soldier in the Confederation Army during the Civil War . After the war, he moved to Lebanon in 1865 to work as a lawyer. Between 1865 and 1875 he was initially deputy and from 1870 full-time court clerk at the local court.

Politically, Riddle was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of MP Samuel McClary Fite , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , when he was due for the by-election for the fourth seat of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on December 14, 1875. After a re-election in the elections of 1876 , he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1879 .

Haywood Riddle died a little more than three weeks after the end of his last term on March 28, 1879 in Lebanon, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Haywood Yancey Riddle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Haywood Yancey Riddle in the database of Find a Grave (English)