Richard Bartholdt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Bartholdt

American politician

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1855

Place of Birth: Schleiz, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1932

Profession: politician, Esperantist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Richard Bartholdt

  • Richard Bartholdt (November 2, 1855 – March 19, 1932) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Missouri. Born in Schleiz, Germany, Bartholdt attended the public schools and Schleiz College (Gymnasium).
  • He immigrated to the United States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. He learned the printing trade and became a newspaper writer and publisher.
  • He moved to Missouri and settled in St.
  • Louis in 1877.
  • He was connected with several papers as a reporter, legislative correspondent, and editor, and at the time of his election to Congress was editor in chief of the St.
  • Louis Tribune.
  • He served as member of the St.
  • Louis Board of Education from 1888 to 1892, serving as president from 1890 to 1892. Bartholdt was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1915).
  • He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses).
  • In 1911 he was appointed by President Taft as a special envoy to the German Emperor to present a statue of Baron Steuben as a gift from Congress and the American people.
  • He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He served as chairman of the Republican State convention at St.
  • Joseph, Missouri, in 1896.
  • Bartholdt was elected president of the Interparliamentary Union at the conference held in St.
  • Louis in 1904, wherein the following year he proposed "the most interesting recent suggestion for federating nations into a League of Peace".
  • He was also for many years was president of the arbitration group in Congress, which he founded in 1903. Bartholdt was an Esperantist, and in 1914 he proposed a resolution to have Esperanto taught in American schools.
  • During World War I, he was president of the American Independence Union, which campaigned for an embargo on munitions sales by United States companies to belligerent countries.
  • He wrote an autobiography entitled From Steerage to Congress (Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1930). He died in St.
  • Louis, Missouri, on March 19, 1932.
  • His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.

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