| Hon. Richard Bartholdt | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1915 |
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| Born | November 2, 1855 Schleiz, Reuss Junior Line |
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| Died | March 19, 1932 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Political party | Republican |
Richard Bartholdt (November 2, 1855 - March 19, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Schleiz is a town in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany. The Principality of Reuss Junior Line (Fürstentum Reuß Jüngerer Linie was a state in Germany, ruled by members of the House of Reuss. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1855 ( MDCCCLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee
Born in Schleiz, Germany, Bartholdt attended the public schools and Schleiz College (Gymnasium). Schleiz is a town in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. 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). Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year 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. The Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU) ( French: L'Union Interparlementaire (UIP) is an international organization established in 1889 by William Randal 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. An Esperantist is a person who speaks or uses Esperanto. Etymologically an Esperantist is someone who hopes [1] 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. The American Independence Union was formed at a one-day conference of 58 civic leaders which was called by Richard Bartholdt, a U [2]
He died in St. Louis, Missouri, March 19, 1932. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.