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Ritter, John

journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1779, in Exeter Township, Pa. The election to the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1836, and elections to seats in the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses, from Pennsylvania, came to him as spontaneous declarations of popular confidence and respect. He died Nov. 24, 1851, in Reading, Pa.

Rivers, Thomas

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from 1855 to 1857.

Rives, Alfred Landon

civil engineer, was born March 25, 1830, in France.

He was an assistant engineer in completing the United States capitol building, Washington, D. C., and in building the aqueduct there, in charge of the United States survey in improving the Potomac river; and designed and constructed the Cabin John bridge, near Washington, which at the time of its completion was the largest single-arch stone bridge in the world.

Rives, Amelie

author, was born Aug. 23, 1863, in Richmond, Va. Her first work was a story in the Atlantic Monthly, which has since appeared with others in book-form under the title of A Brother to Dragons, and Other Old-Time Tales. Her subsequent work includes stories and poems, and a novel entitled The Quick or the Dead?

Rives, Francis E

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died Nov. 30, 1861.

RIVES, MRS. JUDITH PAGE (WALK- ER), author, was born March 24, 1802, in Castle Hill, Va. She was the author of Souvenirs of Residence in Europe; Home and the World; The Canary Bird; and Epitome of the Bible. She died Jan. 23, 1882, in Castle Hill, Va. a

Rixey, John Franklin

agriculturist, lawyer, congressman. He was educated in the common schools, at Bethel academy, and at the university of Virginia. He attained success as a farmer; and is one of the foremost lawyers of Virginia. For twelve years he was commonwealth attorney for Culpeper county; and was elected to the fifty fifth congress as a democrat.

He has served on several important committees, and always takes an active part in debates.

Roach, John Daniel

soldier, lawyer, was born May 1, 1842, in Monroe county, Ala. He graduated from the university of Virginia, at Charlottesville.

During the war he served under Gen. R.

E. Lee from April, 1861, to February, 1865; and subsequently taught school in Alabama.

He takes an active interest in the political affairs of Louisiat Mansfield, ana where he has a lucrative practice, and has been successfully engaged in law for over a quarter of a century.

Roach, William Nathaniel

agriculturist, state legislator, United States senator, was born Sept. 25, 1840, in Washington, D. C. He was mayor of Larimore, S. D., from 1883 to 1887; was a member of the territorial legislature of the session of 1885, and was twice democratic candidate for governor of his state. He was elected United States senator in 1893.

Roane, Archibald

governor. He was governor of Tennessee from 1801 to 1803.

Roane, John

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a presidential elector in 1809; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1815 to 1817; from 1827 to 1831, and for a third term from 1835 to 1837. He died Dec. 18, 1869, in Washington, D. C.

Roane, John J

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia, his native state, from 1831 to 1833.

Roane, John Selden

soldier, governor, was born Jan. 8, 1817, in Wilson county, Tenn. He was governor of Arkansas from 1848 to 1852; and was a brigadier-general in the confederate army. He died April 7, 1867, in Pine Bluff, Ark.