16 Facts About Richard Bartholdt

Richard Bartholdt was a US Representative from Missouri.

Richard Bartholdt emigrated to the United States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn, New York.

Richard Bartholdt learned the printing trade and became a newspaper writer and publisher.

Richard Bartholdt moved to Missouri and settled in St Louis in 1877.

Richard Bartholdt was connected with several papers as a reporter, legislative correspondent, and editor, and at the time of his election to Congress was editor in chief of the St Louis Tribune.

Richard Bartholdt served as member of the St Louis Board of Education from 1888 to 1892, serving as president from 1890 to 1892.

Richard Bartholdt was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses.

Richard Bartholdt served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

Richard Bartholdt was not a candidate for renomination in 1914.

Richard Bartholdt served as chairman of the Republican State convention at St Joseph, Missouri, in 1896.

Richard Bartholdt was elected president of the Interparliamentary Union at the conference held in St Louis in 1904, wherein the following year he proposed "the most interesting recent suggestion for federating nations into a League of Peace".

Richard Bartholdt founded the arbitration group in Congress in 1903, and was its president for many years.

Richard Bartholdt was an Esperantist, and in 1914 he proposed a resolution to have Esperanto taught in American schools.

Richard Bartholdt wrote an autobiography entitled From Steerage to Congress.

Richard Bartholdt died in St Louis, Missouri, on March 19,1932.

Richard Bartholdt's body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.