Ritchie, Thomas
journalist, was born Nov. 5, 1778, in Essex county, Va.
He became editor of the Richmond Examiner in 1804, whose name he changed to the Enquirer, and he continued to edit and publish it for forty years. At the request of President Polk he resigned the Enquirer to his two sons in 1845, and, removing to Washington, assumed the editorial control of the Union, the organ of the administration, but retired in 1849.
He died Jan. 12, 1854, in Richmond, Va.