Preceded by Edward Wade Role U.S. representative Resting place Rock Creek Park Name Albert Riddle Resigned March 3, 1863 | Political party Republican Succeeded by James A. Garfield Preceded by Anson Matthews Party Republican Party | |
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Died May 16, 1902, Washington, D.C., United States Books The Atlantis Plague (T, The Atlantis Gene, The Atlantis World, Bart Ridgeley: A Story of N, The Life - Character and Publi | ||
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Albert Gallatin Riddle (May 28, 1816 – May 16, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
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- Early life
- Career
- Death and legacy
- Works
- References
Early life
Born in Monson, Massachusetts, Riddle moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio, in 1817. He completed preparatory studies, and then studied law.
Career
Riddle was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began practice in Geauga County, serving as prosecuting attorney of that county 1840-1846. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives 1848-1850, and in 1848 called the first Free Soil convention in Ohio.
Riddle moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1856, and in 1859 he defended the Oberlin slave rescuers. He served as a Republican in the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863), making speeches in favor of arming slaves, the first on this subject that were delivered in Congress, and others on emancipation in the District of Columbia and in vindication of President Lincoln. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1862.
After his term in Congress, Riddle served as consul at Matanzas, Cuba, in 1863 and 1864. He then returned to Washington, D.C., and again engaged in the practice of law. He was retained by the State Department to aid in the prosecution of John H. Surratt as one of the accomplices in the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. He also served as law officer of the District of Columbia 1877-1889. He was in charge of the law department at Howard University for several years after its establishment.
Death and legacy
Riddle died in Washington, D.C., May 16, 1902. He was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery.
His papers are at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. They include the unpublished manuscript "Accounts of experiences in Cuba" (1862-1864).