Robert M. Riddle (August 17, 1812 - December 18, 1858) was a journalist, postmaster and politician who served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1853 to 1854.
Robert M. Riddle was born in 1812, the son of Judge James Riddle. He entered trading trade in Pittsburgh at Riddle and Forsyth, and later became involved in the banking business in Philadelphia.
In 1837, he became editor of Advocate, the Whig newspaper in Pittsburgh. He served as head of the post office of the city from 1841 to 1845. When his term ended, he took over a paper called Spirit of the Age , and renamed it Commercial Journal . He connected to the newspaper as an editor and owner until his health failed at the end of his life forcing him to retire from it.
While at the helm of the Journal, Riddle was elected on a Whig ticket as the Mayor of Pittsburgh. He is not re-nominated at the end of his one year term.
With Whig in a sharp deterioration, he moved to the American Party (Know No), and was active in pushing the anti-slavery agenda within the organization. He's finally a Republican.
Riddle died of inflammatory arthritis in 1858. He was buried in Allegheny Cemetery under a column marker that might be a funeral monument to the funeral horn.
Video Robert M. Riddle
See also
- List of the Pittsburgh Mayor
Maps Robert M. Riddle
References
External links
- Robert M Riddle in Discovering the Mausoleum
- Political Cemetery
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