Records of David Ritchie on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Ritchie and the Ritchie Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Ritchie Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Ritchie family tree.

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David Ritchie (politician)

David Ritchie (August 19, 1812 – January 24, 1867) was a Whig, Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

David Ritchie born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg in 1829, and subsequently at Heidelberg, Germany. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ritchie was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress, reelected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Revolutionary Claims during the Thirty-fourth Congress. He was appointed associate judge of the court of common pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1862 and served nine months. He resumed the practice of law and died in Pittsburgh in 1867.

Source: David Ritchie (politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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