David Ritchie (politician)

Ritchie was in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on August 19, 1812. He graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg in 1829, and subsequently from a university in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began his legal practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ==U.S. House of Representatives==

Ritchie served a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1853 until 1859. At different points, he was a member of the Whig, Opposition and Republican parties. 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. ==County judgeship==

He was appointed associate judge of the court of common pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1862 and served nine months. ==Later career==

Following the end of his legislative and judcicial careers, Ritchie resumed the practice of law. ==Death==

Ritchie died in Pittsburgh on January 24, 1867. ==References==