Biography

12/21/1803 - 07/16/1862


RITTENHOUSE, James, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, December 21, 1803 in Pennsylvania; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1855 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; died, July 16, 1862 in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Pottstown Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.


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