Richard Bartholdt
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Richard Bartholdt 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 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, and 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, March 19, 1932.
His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
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Born in Schleiz
Schleiz
Schleiz is a town in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany.- Location :Schleiz is in the Thuringian Vogtland area, an area of wooded hills on the borders of Thuringia, Saxony, Bavaria and the Czech Republic...
, 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 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
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
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, and for many years was president of the arbitration group in Congress, which he founded in 1903.
Bartholdt was an Esperantist
Esperantist
An Esperantist is a person who speaks or uses Esperanto. Etymologically, an Esperantist is someone who hopes...
, 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
American Independence Union
The American Independence Union was formed at a one-day conference of 58 civic leaders which was called by Richard Bartholdt, a U.S. Representative from Missouri, and which was held at the New Willard Hotel in Washington on January 30, 1915. Its purpose was to agitate for strictUS adherence to the...
, 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, March 19, 1932.
His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.