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The Life, Character and Public Services of Jas. A. Garfield Volume 2

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452 pages, Hardcover

Published May 24, 2016

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A.G. Riddle

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Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Riddle was born in Monson, Massachusetts on 28 May 1816, and soon afterwards moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio during 1817.

Riddle studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was a prosecuting attorney between 1840 and 1846, before being elected as a member of the State house of representatives for Ohio from 1848 to 1850. In 1856 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He was then elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress between 1861 & 1863, and subsequently the consul at Matanzas, Cuba until 1864. Having returned to Washington, D.C., and returned to practicing of law, Riddle was retained by the US State Department to aid it in the prosecution of John H. Surratt for his part in the murder of President Lincoln. He finished his career as a law officer for the District of Columbia until 1889.

Riddle died in Washington, D.C. on 16 May 1902.

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