Joseph Ritner | |
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| 8th Governor of Pennsylvania | |
| In office December 15, 1835 – January 15, 1839 | |
| Preceded by | George Wolf |
| Succeeded by | David R. Porter |
| 17th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
| In office 1826–1869 | |
| Preceded by | Joel Barlow Sutherland |
| Succeeded by | Ner Middleswarth |
| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
| In office 1820–1826 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 25, 1780 Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 16, 1869 (aged 89) Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican (before 1828) Anti-Masonic (1828–1839) Whig (1839–1854) Republican (1854–1869) |
| Spouse | Susan Alter (1801–1852; her death) |
| Profession | Farmer |
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Joseph Ritner (March 25, 1780 – October 16, 1869)[1] was the eighth governor of Pennsylvania,[2] and was a member of the Anti-Masonic Party.[3][4] Elected governor during the 1835 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, he served from 1835 to 1839.[5]
Controversy surrounding his defeat in the 1838 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election sparked the Buckshot War.[6][7]
In 1856, Governor Ritner served as a delegate to the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.[8]
- ^ "Joseph Ritner-Susan Alter, Marriage, Family, Genealogy, 26 May 1801, Pennsylvania". www-personal.umich.edu.
- ^ "The Governors of Pennsylvania." Mount Union, Pennsylvania: The Mount Union Times, January 27, 1911, p. 1 (subscription required).
- ^ "Governor Joseph Ritner" (biography). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, retrieved online December 30, 2022.
- ^ Hamilton, A. Boyd. "City Saw First Inauguration in 1812 at Gay Fete." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Telegraph, January 17, 1939, pp. 20, 26 (subscription required).
- ^ "A Daily Lesson in History: Joseph Ritner, Governor of Pennsylvania in the 'Buckshot War.'" Boston, Massachusetts, The Boston Globe, May 31, 1907, p. 16 (subscription required).
- ^ Egle, William Henry. "The Buckshot War," in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1899), pp. 137-156. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Hamilton, "City Saw First Inauguration in 1812 at Gay Fete," Harrisburg Telegraph, January 17, 1939.
- ^ Hamilton, "City Saw First Inauguration in 1812 at Gay Fete," Harrisburg Telegraph, January 17, 1939.